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Moorfields Eye Charity

Moorfields Eye Charity Conference Grants

Moorfields Eye Charity's Conference Grants cover registration, travel and accommodation for eligible Moorfields Eye Hospital staff, UCL Springboard award holders and Moorfields-funded PhD students who are presenting their own Moorfields-derived work at national or international conferences. Caps are £2,000 for an international conference, £1,000 for a UK or European one and £500 for a virtual one, with £3,000 per person per financial year. Applications are taken all year but must be in at least one month before the conference.

Apply on the funder’s site
You could get
Up to £2,000
no fixed round
Deadline
Rolling
apply any time
Effort
Light
short form, little evidence needed

Who can apply

  • Individuals who are the first and presenting author on the abstract and normally hold a full-time or substantial (at least 50% WTE) contract on the first day of the conference: Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust medical fellows, non-medical research fellows and non-medical research, education or service delivery staff (nurses, optometrists, AHPs and others), for national or international meetings; speciality trainees for international meetings only, for costs their deanery funding cannot cover; honorary staff only if a medical graduate on a relevant Moorfields clinical profile; principal holders or named researchers on a Moorfields Eye Charity Springboard award at UCL (two conference grants over the award and up to 12 months after); and students on a Moorfields Eye Charity PhD Studentship awarded after 1 December 2024 (one international and one UK/EU conference)
  • Consultants, speciality doctors, locums of any grade, associate specialists and senior orthoptists are not eligible

What it funds

Costs of presenting Moorfields-derived research, education or service delivery work at national and international conferences:

  • Economy air or train travel to and from the conference (normally up to £200 for UK/European and £800 for international conferences)
  • Standard accommodation for the conference, from the night before the first day to the night before the last day (normally up to £160 a night for conferences from 1 April 2026)
  • The conference registration fee at early bird level

Caps are £2,000 per international conference, £1,000 per UK/European conference and £3,000 per person per financial year (April to April). For virtual conferences only the registration fee is covered, capped at £500.

What it will not fund

  • Applications submitted less than one month before the first day of the conference
  • Retrospective applications
  • Work already included in a previously awarded conference or travel grant from any funder
  • Training or educational courses, even if part of a research conference
  • Attendance-only applications (you must be presenting)
  • Presenting the same or very similar work at more than one conference
  • Costs for anyone travelling with you
  • Travel between home and the station or airport, taxis, car hire and above-economy travel
  • Subsistence, room service, tips and insurance
  • Checked baggage on UK/European flights

How to apply

  1. Read the guidance notes and eligibility flowchart
  2. Start securing Moorfields study leave approval in parallel, if you are taking study leave
  3. Register or activate your account on Flexigrant (moorfieldseyecharity.flexigrant.com) and open the Application Portal
  4. Submit the application, ideally three months and at least one month before the first day of the conference
  5. If successful, meet the conditions in the conditional award letter, acknowledge the charity in your poster or talk, and after the conference send an attendance report and expense claim

A budget is not required on the application form.

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