2024 to 2025 grant data tables

The University of Cambridge

Table list

Table A: 2024 to 2025 Summary of allocations

Quality-related research (QR) funds

Mainstream QR funds (£)
79,992,353
London weighting on mainstream QR (£)
0
Mainstream QR funds including London weighting (£)
79,992,353
QR charity support fund (£)
30,037,574
QR business research element (£)
8,326,200
QR RDP supervision funds (£)
18,185,695
QR funding for National Research Libraries (£)
2,235,540
Total QR funding (£)
138,777,362

Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF)

Main allocation (£)
4,670,000
Top-up allocation (£)
1,000,000
Total HEIF (£)
5,670,000
Total QR and HEIF grant (£)
144,447,362
Museums, Galleries and Collections Fund (£)
2,975,509

Table B: 2024 to 2025 Mainstream QR funds and London weighting

This data is available in the CSV grant data tables download

Table C: 2024 to 2025 QR charity support fund and QR business research element

QR charity support fund

AFR20 Research income from charities (£)
163,708,000
AFR21 Research income from charities (£)
164,033,000
AFR22 Research income from charities (£)
156,123,000
AFR23 Research income from charities (£)
157,965,000
Average annual income (£)
160,457,250
London-weighted research income (£)*
160,457,250
QR charity support fund (£)**
30,037,574
London weighting (£)
1
Rate
0.1872

Notes:

  • * London-weighted research income (£) = average annual income (£) x London weighting
  • ** QR charity support fund (£) = London-weighted research income (£) x rate

QR business research element

AFR20 Research income from businesses (£)
40,840,000
AFR21 Research income from businesses (£)
41,521,000
AFR22 Research income from businesses (£)
43,983,000
AFR23 Research income from businesses (£)
44,543,000
Average annual income (£)
42,721,750
QR business research element (£)*
8,326,200
Rate
0.194894

Notes:

  • * QR business research element (£) = average annual income (£) x rate

Table D: 2024 to 2025 QR RDP supervision funds

QR RDP supervision fund allocations for 2024 to 2025 will be based on the 2023 to 2024 allocations, with any changes in budget for the fund reflected proportionally to the 2023 to 2024 allocations. Further information is available in circular letter: Data and payments for 2024 to 2025 formula-based funding (RE-CL-2024-04).

Table E: 2024 to 2025 HEIF allocations

HEIF qualifying income
Data source 2020 to 2021 income (£) 2021 to 2022 income (£) 2022 to 2023 income (£)
HE-BCI survey Income from contract research 150,803,000 148,115,000 146,738,000
Income from consultancy 23,746,000 25,653,000 25,466,000
Income from equipment and facilities 6,719,000 9,040,000 12,374,000
Income from regeneration 896,000 2,047,000 0
Income from intellectual property 11,200,000 11,816,000 15,785,000
Income from SMEs in the above categories* 6,370,000 7,401,000 9,586,000
Innovate UK KTP income** 93,000 73,000 52,000
OfS annual financial return Income from NCB provision 10,324,000 16,648,000 21,616,000
Total per year 210,151,000 220,793,000 231,617,000

Notes:

  • * Income from SMEs is included in the income stream total and again in the total income from SMEs to provide the overall double-weighting for SME income
  • ** This is the KTP income provided by Innovate UK
Total weighted qualifying income (£), using 2:3:5 ratio = (2020 to 2021 income x 2) + (2021 to 2022 income x 3) + (2022 to 2023 income x 5)
2,240,766,000

HEIF allocation

Main allocation (£)
4,670,000
Top-up allocation (£)
1,000,000
Total allocation (£)
5,670,000

Table F: 2024 to 2025 HEIF formula parameters

Total HEIF budget

Main allocation (£)
240,000,000
Top-up allocation (£)
20,000,000
Total HEIF budget (£)
260,000,000

HEIF formula parameters

Main allocation

Minimum allocation threshold (£)
250,000
Maximum allocation (£)
4,670,000

Yearly moderation factor

Maximum increase
10%
Maximum decrease
-10%

Top-up allocation

Minimum allocation (£)
200,000
Maximum allocation (£)
1,000,000