We provide grants to people working at the cutting-edge of alcohol-harm prevention. They might be undertaking research, testing out new ideas or running projects that help to disseminate high quality evidence. The key thing is that they are all helping to improve our understanding of alcohol-related harm.
Through our studentship scheme, we also invest in people embarking on a career in the field. But we do not fund medical research.
We promote our grantees’ findings by adding them to our growing library of evidence and by actively disseminating research findings to people working to prevent alcohol-related harm such as policymakers, practitioners, scientists, campaigners, the alcohol industry and many others. That way we can ensure that the decisions these people make are well informed, based on reliable, research-based, evidence.
The problems we are dealing with are significant and have a considerable impact on many areas of our lives:
- Alcohol abuse costs the English and Welsh economies about £20 billion every year through damage to health, crime and disorder and loss to work productivity
- At least 33,000 people die from alcohol-related causes each year
- The number of alcohol-related deaths in the UK rose by 19% between 2001 and 2009
- Nearly a quarter of adults are drinking at levels that is hazardous to their health
- Some 2.6 million children are living with parents who drink hazardously
Here are some examples of the kind of work that we have funded:
Case Study 1 – The Alcohol Academy
Case Study 2 – Strengthening Families
Case Study 3 – Screening and Brief Interventions
Case Study 4 – Community Interventions
Case Study 5 – Drug and Alcohol Findings
Case Study 6 – Studentship Grants
Examples of Small Grants
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