Health charities in search of a helping hand are encouraged to apply to funding and support via this year’s BMA Giving awards.
Applications to this year’s awards, which aim to support charities and health organisations, are now under way.
An annual fixture of the association calendar, the fund last year saw a total of £75,000 donated to a total of 10 health and medical-related organisations.
Among these was an award of £8,000 to the Cameron Fund, a medical benevolent charity which, for more than 50 years, has been dedicated to supporting GPs facing financial hardship.
Cameron Fund chief executive Jill Rowlinson said the support of BMA Giving had been critical to her organisation’s ability to continue to provide support at what is an extremely challenging time for doctors in general practice.
‘It [BMA Giving funding] has been really important and helpful to us,’ explains Ms Rowlinson.
‘We’re not a charity that attracts a huge popular appeal, most donors are going to be GPs themselves with the rest made up from donations by local medical committees, so something like this is vitally important to us.’