A circular letter from Research England to heads of its funded English higher education providers. Reference RE-CL-2025-02.
Payment profile adjustment
Research England has revised the profile of grant payments of QR funding to higher education providers (HEPs) across the remaining months of the academic year 2024 to 2025. This is due to changes to the profile of funding we receive from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
We have adjusted the payment profile to bring forward some funding originally scheduled for payment in April, May and June 2025 into March 2025. This is in line with our usual practice at this time of year.
See the revised Grant payment profiles August 2024 to July 2025.
Impact of the changes for HEPs
This reprofiling of payments does not change the total allocation of 2024 to 2025 QR funding for any HEP. Only the timing of the payments is affected.
See Research England grant allocation data 2024 to 2025 for the allocations made to each HEP for the full year.
For a small number of HEPs the QR funding payments have not been reprofiled. This reflects the requirement on Research England not to fund in advance of need.
For the HEPs affected, these changes mean that:
- in March 2025, a QR funding payment has been made where there was no payment originally profiled
- in April and May 2025, no QR funding payment will be made
- in June 2025, a smaller QR funding payment will be made than originally profiled
Further information
If you have any questions about this payment profile change, contact us at annualfunding@re.ukri.org
Yours sincerely
Professor Dame Jessica Corner FMedSci, MAE, RN
Executive Chair, Research England