Candidates will be informed of their application outcome within a week of the Trustee meeting. Brief feedback is offered to unsuccessful applicants. The Trust does not release referees' reports.

Formal offer letters are issued within two weeks providing an INT reference number which should be quoted in any subsequent correspondence. Please note that this reference number is not the same as the project code provided by the Research Office. Standard Terms & Conditions are also attached to these offer letters.

Our offers are normally conditional and any conditions specific to your grant will be set out in the offer letter.

Please be aware that the Trustees do not always award the full amount applied for and may offer a portion of the sought funds for a variety of reasons. A main reason for not providing everything asked for is that the limited resources of the Trust are stretched as far as the Trustees can manage without fatally harming the chances of applicants offered less than the full amount. Sometimes Trustees will question whether other sources of potential funding have been fully utilised and will make a partial offer that should enable the recipient to make a bid to other sources and improve the chances of success.

Once these specific conditions are met, the grant can be confirmed. Normally, the conditions refer to external funding, appointment of a Research Associate and/or submission of a PhD.  Evidence, such as a copy of the grant letter, should be sent to the Trust. Offers are valid for 2 years from the date of the offer letter without the specific agreement of the Trustees.

Confirmation letters are sent to the applicant and his/her Department and to the Research Support Manager for the relevant School at the Research Office.

Research grants are normally set up and managed by the Research Office, in collaboration with the Department/ institution finance office – the INT does not manage the grant.

An invoice can be submitted to the Trust on receipt of the confirmation letter unless the start date is some distance into the future. Where the grant is for more than one year, only one year of the grant will be paid at a time and no more than one invoice will be paid per grant per INT financial year (July-June).