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  1. Influencing policy
  2. Focus areas
  3. UK research system

UK research system

The vast majority of grants funded by our charities are awarded to the UK’s world-class universities. AMRC charities have invested £2.2 billion in UK research infrastructure over the last ten years.

Policies that impact the research system matter to our charities, and so we focus our influencing activities on:

  • improving the sustainability of charity-university research
  • supporting research careers, translation and infrastructure
  • maintaining a facilitative legislative and regulatory environment.

Find out more about some of this work below.


Charity Research Support Fund

Find out more about our work on the Charity Research Support Fund below. 

Charity Research Support Fund (CRSF)

Recent consultation responses 

Response

Consulting body

Date

AMRC response to call for evidence on life sciences investment House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

October 2025

AMRC response to Spending Review

HM Treasury

February 2025

View a full list of our responses on our consultation responses page.  


Latest news 

Patient receiving medicine
AMRC response to announcement of UK-US pharmaceuticals deal

Published: 1 December 2025

Variety of coins on a table
Budget 2025 and UKRI Growth Summit: what are the key takeaways?

Published: 27 November 2025

Researcher with pipette
AMRC response to publication of the Life Sciences Sector Plan

Published: 16 July 2025

Published: 1st May, 2025

Updated: 22nd May, 2026

Author: Ellen Hinkley

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