2024 to 2025 grant data tables

Loughborough University

Table list

Table A: 2024 to 2025 Summary of allocations

Quality-related research (QR) funds

Mainstream QR funds (£)
17,099,787
London weighting on mainstream QR (£)
0
Mainstream QR funds including London weighting (£)
17,099,787
QR charity support fund (£)
244,717
QR business research element (£)
1,273,094
QR RDP supervision funds (£)
3,368,650
QR funding for National Research Libraries (£)
0
Total QR funding (£)
21,986,248

Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF)

Main allocation (£)
4,670,000
Top-up allocation (£)
549,147
Total HEIF (£)
5,219,147
Total QR and HEIF grant (£)
27,205,395
Museums, Galleries and Collections Fund (£)
0

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 (£)
490,000
AFR21 Research income from charities (£)
1,074,000
AFR22 Research income from charities (£)
1,844,000
AFR23 Research income from charities (£)
1,821,000
Average annual income (£)
1,307,250
London-weighted research income (£)*
1,307,250
QR charity support fund (£)**
244,717
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 (£)
5,249,000
AFR21 Research income from businesses (£)
6,327,000
AFR22 Research income from businesses (£)
7,283,000
AFR23 Research income from businesses (£)
7,270,000
Average annual income (£)
6,532,250
QR business research element (£)*
1,273,094
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 13,126,000 19,079,000 20,166,000
Income from consultancy 4,057,000 4,787,000 4,416,000
Income from equipment and facilities 9,606,000 9,021,000 14,393,000
Income from regeneration 1,955,000 1,128,000 1,084,000
Income from intellectual property 207,000 365,000 283,000
Income from SMEs in the above categories* 1,358,000 1,315,000 1,432,000
Innovate UK KTP income** 325,000 470,000 571,000
OfS annual financial return Income from NCB provision 1,241,000 1,375,000 1,375,000
Total per year 31,875,000 37,540,000 43,720,000

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)
394,970,000

HEIF allocation

Main allocation (£)
4,670,000
Top-up allocation (£)
549,147
Total allocation (£)
5,219,147

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