🌟 Join our Research Grants Committee 🌟 We are recruiting! Appointments are for three years. You must be able to attend three committee meetings per year, plus one or two interviews/expert panels. Find out more here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/about-us/vac... #FundingForAgeingWell #CharityJobs

Book now for next week's free online masterclass with @magswatson1.bsky.social on how to mentor effectively in academia. We have covered the cost of the session for Academy members, and you can book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclas... #FundingForAgeingWell #MentoringMasterclass

Our joint predoctoral clinical research training fellowship with the Medical Research Council is now open. Find out more and how to apply: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu... #FundingForAgeingWell

Book now for next week's free online masterclass with @magswatson1.bsky.social on how to mentor effectively in academia. We have covered the cost of the session for Academy members, and you can book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclas... #FundingForAgeingWell #MentoringMasterclass

Publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with @vivensa.bsky.social): "Culturally appropriate physical activity promotion strategy package among older Chinese adults in the UK: a feasibility randomised control trial protocol". pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

As part of Trustees' Week (which runs from 3-7 November), we'd like to say a huge ✨THANK YOU ✨ to our amazing Board of Trustees. We appreciate your time, expertise and commitment. #FundingForAgeingWell #TrusteesWeek @beecell.bsky.social @profroseg.bsky.social @jillmanthorpe.bsky.social

We have just published the second in our four-part change conversation series. In it, our outgoing Chief Executive Officer Susan Kay and her successor Katy Saunders discuss collaboration and how it serves to de-risk change: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/change-... #ChangeConversationSeries

🏆 How often do you get the opportunity to apply for flexible funding? How would you use £120k over three years? The deadline to nominate for the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards is next week (31 October, 5pm). Visit: vivensafoundation.org.uk/wp-content/u... #FundingForAgeingWell #ExcellenceAwards

We’ve developed a values-based framework for investment, and by sharing some key learnings from our journey, we hope to help others move their ideas forward too. Full news article here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/five-ti... #FundingForAgeingWell #ValuesBasedFramework #ImpactIntentionalInvestment

🏆 How often do you get the opportunity to apply for flexible funding? How would you use £120k over three years? The deadline to nominate for the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards is next week (31 October, 5pm). Visit: vivensafoundation.org.uk/wp-content/u... #FundingForAgeingWell #ExcellenceAwards

Social activities like overnight trips, seeing friends & family and playing bingo could help to reverse frailty in older people. Research led by Fuse Director Professor Sheena Ramsay, part-funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the @amjepi.bsky.social ⬇️ fuse.ac.uk/news/sociali...

It’s time to transform the investment system. With the Endowments Investing Challenge we’re raising the voices normally excluded to drive the creation of an ambitious portfolio for an investment of up to £50m. Download the RFP: www.endowmentsinvestingchallenge.com/request-for-proposals.

Download the Request for Investment Proposals here: endowmentsinvestingchallenge.com/request-for-... Proud to be working with partners @fprovfoundation.bsky.social @blagravetrust.bsky.social @childrenssociety.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social ky.social and Cripplegate Foundation. 2/2

It’s time to transform the investment system. We’re inviting investment service providers to propose a bold portfolio for an investment of up to £50m that prioritises positive social and environmental impact for future generations. 1/2 #ImpactInvesting #EndowmentsInvestingChallenge

How often do you get the opportunity to apply for flexible funding? You have just over two weeks left to nominate yourself or another Academy member for the 2025/26 Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards, so don't miss out: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu... #FundingForAgeingWell #ExcellenceAwards

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We've just published the first article in our three-part investment series. CEO Susan Kay and CIO Andrew Gnaneswaran reflect on what they learnt throughout our impact-intentional investment journey: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/reflect... #FundingForAgeingWell #ImpactIntentionalInvesting

We have just published the first in a four-part conversation series, in which our outgoing CEO Susan Kay and her successor Katy Saunders talk about evolutionary change. You can read the article here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/change-... #FundingForAgeingWell #ChangeConversationSeries

🚨New webinar just added! Suitable Housing for an Ageing Population Evidence Exchange – The SHAPE of things to come with @vivensa.bsky.social 📅Tuesday 14th Oct 2025 🕓4-5pm 💻Online – Zoom Let's talk care-ready housing, intergenerational living & adaptations👉 www.housinglin.org.uk/Events/HAPPI...

I am very grateful to my funders the @vivensa.bsky.social and @bartscharity.bsky.social for funding this research through seed awards. More research is desperately needed to understand the impact of menopause on immunity and I hope more funders consider this as an important research area. #immunosky

If you lead a community organisation working with older people, have a read about our Capability Development Programme. Expert sessions, action learning sets, residentials, and even a £15,000 grant for each organisation: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/investi... #FundingForAgeingWell

It's been a busy week here, with the publication of two new reports: The 2024/25 Trustees’ Reports and Accounts and the Strategic Framework – a review of the plan period 2020-25. You can read both publications here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/about-us/#re... #FundingForAgeingWell

With only a couple of days left to register for our Early Career Researchers' event in November (deadline is Friday), now's a great time to read this article on 10 years of our ECR Network/Academy by Nick Evans: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/nick-ev... #EarlyCareerResearchers #FundingForAgeingWell

⏱️Just over a week left to register for our Early Career Researchers' event on 19 November at the Building Centre, London. Register here (where you can also submit a title and abstract for a poster/talk) by 10 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vivensa-fo... #EarlyCareerResearchers

In May I began my @vivensa.bsky.social proleptic Fellowship on aging and CKD. I am grateful to all who supported this work! PhD opportunity hopefully coming soon! 👀 Keep your eyes peeled. #CKD #HealthyAging #PhD @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @aj-mcknight.bsky.social

This International Day of Older People, read about some of the ways in which we’re supporting researchers and social innovators to build belonging, drive community-level change and create opportunities for social connection: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/interna... #IDOP2025 #FundingForAgeingWell

🏆A reminder that nominations are open for the third round of the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards. Three awards of £120k will be made to Academy members. Deadline is 31 October 2025, 5pm. More here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/now-ope... #FundingForAgeingWell #VivensaAcademy #ExcellenceAwards

Find out how @gnna.bsky.social @drhelenwright.bsky.social and Professor Chrissy Hammond are using PPIE. They share practical tips for tailoring PPIE activities to older participants and funding models that help PPIE to flourish: vivensafoundation.org.uk/award-holder... #PPIE #FundingForAgeingWell

🎯Read our latest blog where three of our funded researchers share how PPIE has shifted their perspective — from focusing solely on lab-driven questions to tackling the everyday priorities older adults care about most: vivensafoundation.org.uk/award-holder... #AgeingResearch #PPIE

We’d like to offer our congratulations to the five successful Academy members who secured a place on Zinc's Inflection Programme and start this week: 🌟 @lonelydeb.bsky.social 🌟 Laura Brown 🌟 Christian Morgner 🌟 Dr Praveen Kumar 🌟 Kjara Pilch #VivensaAcademy

Registration is open for our in-person Early Career Researchers' event in London on 19 November. Find out more and register here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/ukarff-membe... #FundingForAgeingWell #EarlyCareerResearchers

Read our five recommendations for funders of ageing-related research, based on our landscape report, on the @gerisoc.bsky.social blog: www.bgs.org.uk/five-recomme... #FundingForAgeingWell #AgeingRelatedResearch

A real pleasure and a privilege to be asked to speak to this super-talented set of future leaders. Fair winds and following seas to you all. @housinglin.bsky.social

Fab @housinglin.bsky.social #FutureLeaders session today with 2 outstanding captains of industry emh’s #ChanKataria & @vivensa.bsky.social #SusanKay sharing their journeys. Leadership isn’t all plain sailing. A skipper needs a skilled crew to steer through those choppy seas and calm waters

Follow us and our partners to stay up-to-date: @childrenssociety.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social @vivensa.bsky.social @shareaction.bsky.social

🏆Nominations are now open for the third round of the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards. Three awards of £120k will be made to Academy members. Deadline is 31 October 2025, 5pm. More here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/now-ope... #FundingForAgeingWell #VivensaAcademy #ExcellenceAwards

Huge thanks to @vivensa.bsky.social Magnitude Biosciences, and Oxford Immune Algorithmics for supporting this mornings Pitching and Commercialisation of Research Early Career Workshop!

🚨Funding opportunity for early & mid-career researchers in ageing through @vivensa.bsky.social! Apply for £500 award to support public, patient or community involvement. Next deadline: 30th Sept 2025 (with more up to August 2026). More here: tinyurl.com/2ukn49p8

We have joined the Endowments Investing Challenge, working alongside partners including @blagravetrust.bsky.social, @childrenssociety.bsky.social, @fprovfoundation.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social. Read the full story here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/proud-t... #ImpactInvesting #YouthVoice

In June, Professor Tom Kirkwood CBE FMedSci attended his final board meeting after a full 8-year term as a Trustee. But his association with the Vivensa Foundation spans many more years than that. Read more: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/a-conve... #FundingForAgeingWell

A reminder to Academy members who'd like to apply for up to £5k through the Academy Ignition Fund - there's an upcoming deadline next week, on Friday 19 September. More here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu... #FundingForAgeingWell #VivensaAcademy

⏱️LAST CHANCE to register for our interactive workshop on the Ethics of Engagement and Impact on Mon 15 September. It's online and free to Academy members, and there are just a few spaces left. Find out more and book here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/event/the-et... #FundingForAgeingWell #FreeLearning

Our Director of Research, Sanjay Thakrar, has pulled together 10 practical tips for writing stronger grant applications: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/10-tips... #FundingForAgeingWell #GrantTips #ResearchFunding

We know we can’t address the most pressing challenges in ageing through grant-giving alone. We also use strategic partnerships, social investment and impact-intentional investing. More here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/award-holder... #FundingForAgeingWell

We are recruiting! We're looking for a FT Investment Manager to work on a fixed term 12-month contract starting in October 2025. Careers4Change has all the details 👇 careers4change.com/jobs/investm... #socialimpactjobs #wearehiring #FundingForAgeingWell

💡We have four fantastic events coming up for Academy members. All are free and online, and you can book your place now: 👉 vivensafoundation.org.uk/our-work/#ev... #FundingForAgeingWell

We care strongly about capacity building and take a personal approach to supporting the careers of our award-holders. Read what some of them have to say: vivensafoundation.org.uk/award-holder... #FundingForAgeingWell #CapacityBuilding

🙌🏽More REACT classes coming to Bristol, North Somerset and South Glos! REACT is the evidence-based exercise programme which helps people to keep moving as they age. Thanks to @vivensa.bsky.social for funding this new @unibirmingham.bsky.social implementation study. bit.ly/3HqQcxQ

We’ve just announced our latest funded projects under our Supporting Older Adults’ Independence call. Two impactful programmes have been awarded funding. You can read more about them here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/awards-... #HealthyAgeing #FallsPrevention #VivensaFoundation #SocialCare