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Funding Available from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

The Society, through its Grants and Awards Committee, administers the following funds:

Educational Funds The Society’s educational funds are

made up of small longestablished trusts set up by former members of the Society. However, the main source of these funds is now from the CSP Charitable Trust. This, in effect. represents the cumulation of the tax that the Society would otherwise pay on its investment and other income, which is invested to build up a capital fund. Trustees of the Charitable Trust then donate the income on that capital fund for the support of postgraduate education and for research. An additional fund exists specifically for members undertaking study in the fields of documentation retrieval or information technology.

Applications are considered from members of the Society with a minimum of three years postqualification experience undertaking post-registrationlgraduate, clinical and academic courses or educational travel which should serve to enhance their professional skills and patient care. All applicants are expected to have attempted to gain funding from a variety of other sources before applying to the Socie ‘s funds.

funds available. In 1992 a total of 163 applications were received. Awards totalling €60,600 were made to 147 applicants. The largest awards made to any individual were €750 for full-time one-year MSc courses. It is possible to award most members only a fraction of the funding requested. The average amount requested is €1,500 - the greatest being €13,100.

There is very little prospect of the Society being in a position to boost these funds further in future years. Consequently, as

Requests a r funding grossly outstrip the

the number of these applications continues to increase, the value of the awards in real terms will decrease, and there is no way the needs of all deserving members will be met. As the 1992 Congress motion which sought to address this issue was rejected, the Grants and AwardsCommittee is now seeking alternative ideas for augmenting these funds and would be grateful for suggestions - please send them to the CSP Education Department.

International Lecture Fund Small grants are available to members

of the profession whose papers are accepted for presentation at international conferences (other than WCPT) but are unable to fund their travel, subsistance and registration fees, and also for members invited to present papers or lectures at international conferences which would be of benefit to the profession but where the hosts cannot fund their costs.

This fund is dependent upon donations. In the past these have been received from Clinical Interest Groups, Occupational Groups, Boards and Branches, and so on. However, these donations have seriously dwindled over the last few years and last April there were nine very deserving applications and only €700 available for grants from the fund.

Robert Williams International Award

The Robert Williams International Award was set up in 1984 in memory of Robert Williams’ work on behalf of the Society in the international field of physiotherapy. The purpose of the award is to offer support to subscribing members of the Society chosen as lecturers in the official programme of the World Confederation for

Physical Therapy Congress, which takes place every four years. The next WCPT Congress is in Washington in June 1995. Awards made have covered travel costs, the congress registration fee, hotel accommodation and subsistence. The number of awards available is largely dependent on the Congress venue.

Further information and application forms relating to the above awards is available from Elaine Venables in the CSP Education Department. Please state to which fund you wish to apply.

Physiotherapy Research Foundation

The Physiotherapy Research Foundation has a project grant scheme, the aim of which is to support the development of research in physiotherapy by members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. Funding for these awards comes from the CSP Charitable Trust, although donations are extremely welcome. Small grants of between €250 and €2,000 are available for suitable projects, which should not be part of taught degree courses, and the research should be undertaken under the aegis of a university, research institution or health authority. Grants are not intended to replace existing resources or, necessarily, meet the entire cost of research projects. In 1992, the sum of €34333 was available for research awards and awards totalling €6,000 were made. Further information and an application form can be obtained from Dr Catherine Sackley, research development officer at the CSP.

All members who have been qualified more than three years are entitled to apply for any of these funds, but unless more money is made available their use will, unfortunately, be increasingly limited. The committee will be writing specifically to Boards, Branches and Specific Interest Groups, alerting them to the problems and seeking ideas for augmenting the funds.

CSP Diploma for Teachers of Physiotherapy Pass list - December 1992 Mary Francesca Anthony, Sheffield Uttaman Arumugam, Teesside. Siti Esah Bt Bahari, Newcastle. Suvapackiam Chellamuttu, Coventry. Yolande Ann Glenn, Coventry. Kamaria Kamaruddin, Wakefield. Joan Kennedy-Lundy, Ulster. Mohanasundari Ratnasamy, Newcastle.

Polyglot Public Relations Waiting for the rush at Inform ’92 in November - the Society’s stand at the Government’s Europe-wide conference and exhibition on disability, one of the events marking Britain’s six-month EC presidency, was the only British stand displaying material in European languages other than English; even the Government’s stand did not do this.

From left to right: Mary Ross MCSR Stuart Skyte, Gloria Franco MCSP and Abe Cutajar MCSP

Physlotherapy, January 1993, vol79, no 1