A Letter of Support must be provided from the Lead Organisation, and should be signed by someone with the appropriate level of authority within the organisation – this should be someone other than the Principal Investigator. The letter should be on letter-headed paper, and consist of the following statement:

“I am pleased to confirm that [name of Principal Investigator] is authorised to apply for this Creating Safer Space grant on behalf of our organisation. If the project is awarded funding, our organisation will provide full support to enable the Principal Investigator to carry out the project. The Principal Investigator will be permitted to carry out the project in their work time.”

There is no need to provide any further information. The letter will be checked to ensure the applicant’s eligibility, but will not be shared with the Funding Panel and will not otherwise form part of the review process.

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A Letter of Support must be provided from each Project Partner, and should be signed by someone with the appropriate level of authority within the organisation. The letter should be written when the proposal is being prepared and should be targeted specifically to the project. Each letter of support should be max. 2 pages of A4 on headed paper.

The letter should articulate the benefits of the collaboration to the Project Partner, and the relevance of the project to the Project Partner’s wider work. For example, if the Project Partner’s main aim is to support people who have been displaced by conflict in a particular region, does the project have the potential to support that work and to benefit those displaced people?

The letter should also identify the role of the Project Partner in the project, the full nature of the collaboration or the support that it will provide, and how the Project Partner will provide added value to the project. Project Partner letters of support that merely indicate that an organisation is interested in the research are not permitted – Project Partners should always play an integral role in the proposed research (e.g. facilitating access to research participants etc.) or in furthering the research’s dissemination and knowledge exchange (e.g. organising/hosting a dissemination event, pledging to seek to integrate research findings into the organisation’s practices etc.).

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