Reviewed: April 2025

Why is it important to share your research strategy?

Sharing research priorities in the form of a published research strategy that clearly sets out what the charity will fund and why, and allows charities to:

• show transparency and ensure that that public money is being directed towards the research areas you seek to prioritise.
• provide reassurance and trust to donors build trust in your organisation, processes, and research.
• spark new collaborations and attract co-funding opportunities, by allowing other organisations to identify areas of cross-over and shared interest.
• avoid or reduce duplication of funding, and reduce research and funding waste by sharing with the wider sector identified gaps, planned approaches and opportunities in research funding.
• attract relevant applicants, and help researchers understand the charity’s research remit and how their research sits within it.
• provide charity expert reviewers, research review committees and staff with a clear set of objectives to evaluate both funding applications and research impact.
• evidence the organisation’s value and unique position in the sector, and expertise as a research funder and actor in a specific field or disease area.

Full member requirement: AMRC members must have a published research strategy online so that external audiences can see the direction of research and the rigorous methods used to make research funding decisions.

Who should you share it with?

It is useful to share a research strategy far and wide.  Some of the stakeholders we identified include:

• Other staff and teams in your charity
• Donors
• Other funders
• Other charities
• Researchers

View our other guidance on developing and sharing a research strategy:   

• Setting research priorities
• Writing and publishing the strategy