2025 to 2026 grant data tables

The Royal Agricultural University

Table list

Table A: 2025 to 2026 Summary of allocations

Quality-related research (QR) funds

Mainstream QR funds (£)
177,088
London weighting on mainstream QR (£)
0
Mainstream QR funds including London weighting (£)
177,088
QR charity support fund (£)
3,202
QR business research element (£)
14,660
QR RDP supervision funds (£)
0
QR funding for National Research Libraries (£)
0
Total QR funding (£)
194,950

Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF)

Main allocation (£)
484,705
Top-up allocation (£)
0
Total HEIF (£)
484,705
Total QR and HEIF grant (£)
679,655
Museums, Galleries and Collections Fund (£)
0

Table B: 2025 to 2026 Mainstream QR funds and London weighting

This data is available in the CSV grant data tables download

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Table C: 2025 to 2026 QR charity support fund and QR business research element

QR charity support fund

AFR21 Research income from charities (£)
0
AFR22 Research income from charities (£)
0
AFR23 Research income from charities (£)
63,000
AFR24 Research income from charities (£)
7,000
Average annual income (£)
17,500
London-weighted research income (£)*
17,500
QR charity support fund (£)**
3,202
London weighting (£)
1
Rate
0.182981

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

AFR21 Research income from businesses (£)
44,000
AFR22 Research income from businesses (£)
76,000
AFR23 Research income from businesses (£)
5,000
AFR24 Research income from businesses (£)
189,000
Average annual income (£)
78,500
QR business research element (£)*
14,660
Rate
0.186757

Notes:

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

Table D: 2025 to 2026 QR RDP supervision funds

This institution does not receive this funding stream

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Table E: 2025 to 2026 HEIF allocations

HEIF qualifying income
Data source 2021 to 2022 income (£) 2022 to 2023 income (£) 2023 to 2024 income (£)
HE-BCI survey Income from contract research 249,000 141,000 245,000
Income from consultancy 30,000 31,000 78,000
Income from equipment and facilities 243,000 294,000 274,000
Income from regeneration 104,000 0 0
Income from intellectual property 327,000 263,000 128,000
Income from SMEs in the above categories* 272,000 321,000 396,000
Innovate UK KTP income** 0 0 0
OfS annual financial return Income from NCB provision 1,998,000 2,641,000 3,233,000
Total per year 3,223,000 3,691,000 4,354,000

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 = (2021 to 2022 income x 2) + (2022 to 2023 income x 3) + (2023 to 2024 income x 5)
39,289,000

HEIF allocation

Main allocation (£)
484,705
Top-up allocation (£)
0
Total allocation (£)
484,705

Table F: 2025 to 2026 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

New Entrant Cap*

Maximum allocation (£)
500,000

Yearly moderation factor

Maximum increase
10%
Maximum decrease
-10%

Top-up allocation

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

Notes:

  • * A new entrant is defined as a provider, newly eligible or otherwise, that did not receive HEIF in the previous year, whether or not they received HEIF prior to that time