Quick guide to the Innovation Fund
We support the development of library resources, research, activities and projects across the region through our Innovation Fund. Applications for the Innovation Fund 25/26 close on 3 November.
1. What is the Innovation Fund?
The Innovation Fund is a competitive award created by the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries. Successful applications will receive funding to deliver a project, resource, research or other activity that works towards one or more of the themes in the Consortium’s 2023-2026 Strategic Plan for the benefit of Consortium members. The four themes are.
People: Inspiring and developing our staff, Collaboration: Connecting and collaborating through our membership, Diversity: Celebrating diversity in our institutions and our staff and Sustainability: Acting sustainably
- How much grant money is available?
The total amount in the Fund for 2025-26 is £1,000 and applicants can apply for grants from the fund from £100 up £1,000.
3. Who can apply?
Any library staff member or group of staff at one of our member institutions can apply.
4. How do I apply?
Complete the application form available to download from our website and send with any additional supporting documents to m25libadmin@london.ac.uk addressing the points set out on the Innovation Fund web page.
Deadline for bids is 5pm on Wednesday 3 November 2025. Successful bids informed by Wednesday 10 December 2025
5. Who benefits?
The Grants are for activities or projects that will benefit your service and our other members. A condition of receiving a grant is that successful applicants will share their learning/outputs by no later than the end of December 2026. Sharing can be achieved in different ways and could be in the form of a report, a conference presentation or an online resource.