Outreach

We can support 

• Funding towards the development and delivery of educational and professional courses in the United Kingdom.
• Exhibiting at or sponsorship of educational and professional conferences, meetings and events (e.g. venue hire, catering, etc.) in the United Kingdom.  
• Funding for print publications, and other event collateral.  
• Funding for online platform subscriptions to run virtual events. 
• Funding for prizes (e.g. poster competitions, essay prizes, etc.). We can also provide judges for competitions.
• Speakers for events: Please provide as much information as possible as to the kind of speaker you are looking for and the topic of the presentation. We will always do our best to find an appropriate speaker. Please note: If we provide speakers who have volunteered to support your event, you will be expected to make contact with them whether you choose to use them or not.
• Funding for educational and teaching materials and consumables (such as suture kits). 
• Events or activities with other sponsors or partners including other surgical royal colleges. Please provide details of your other sponsors in your application.
• Only contracts issued by RCS England will be supported. The College will be unable to sign contracts issued by universities, student unions or other organisations.

We cannot support

• Please note that we may decline requests that do not have approximately 75% of sessions, speakers and topics confirmed on the programme at the time of application.
• Societies, companies, institutions or organisations that are not affiliated with surgery or dental surgery that are based outside the UK.  
• Educational and professional conferences, meetings, events and courses that are aimed at other medical specialities.  
• Events that are being held at other surgical colleges.
• Sponsorship of individuals (for this please see educational grants and bursaries).  
• Social events, e.g. society socials, balls, dinners, celebration events, sports teams etc.
• RCS England does not endorse, promote, or approve products, companies or services (medical or otherwise) unless research has shown a direct benefit and relevance to patients or our members. 
• No sponsorship or advertising will be given to companies or organisations where there is a conflict of interest (real or perceived) with our work. An example of this is alcohol and tobacco companies.

Examples of where we may not offer support

• If the event or activity has already occurred. 
• If the request for funding is larger than RCS England is able to support. However, we may be able to provide a contribution towards the overall costs.
• If sufficient notice before the event or activity is not provided, e.g. less than eight weeks' notice before the activity in due to take place.
• If the request is for other costs that do not contribute directly to the running or content of the event or activity. For example: gifts for speakers, promotional giveaways, and paid social media marketing. 
• We may not be able to provide support for courses which are not RCS England accredited.

Example groups we support

• University surgical or dental societies or sub-speciality societies 
• Surgical or dental trainee or resident doctors' organisations
• National dental or surgical specialty associations
• Regional dental or surgical organisations
• Special interest societies e.g. SAS and Women in Surgery and research

Please complete our sponsorship form with as much detail as possible when applying for sponsorship. We will ask you to provide details of the event or course, including:  

• information on how you plan to use the funding;
• a breakdown of anticipated costs; 
• the number of attendees;  
• information on how this will support your members / students / colleagues, and; 
• any other details of how the RCS England can support the activity. 

If we have agreed to sponsor an event then your organisation must refer to the support as a sponsorship agreement rather than a partnership, affiliation or accreditation

Please download programme and costings templates which you may use for your event. You do not have to use them; we will accept programmes and costings in other formats. Please do refer to the templates for guidance on the level of detail we require to be able to assess your application. 

For student medical or dental groups that successfully secure an RCS England Sponsorship agreements, they qualify for a discounted rate for CPD points of £100 per event, rather than the usual £350 charged to not-for-profit events. Please note: This is for the regional/national events only and if a society is organising an internal event open only to their own students, the CPD fee would be £50. 

CPD points are for one-off events and are calculated as one point per one hour of educational activity. The application form and more details can be found on our accreditation pages. Complete the form for either a face-to-face event or online event and then email it to qa@rcseng.ac.uk.  

Applications are reviewed against the CPD standards and should be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event. The QA team cannot look at applications retrospectively.  

If you would like further information about applying for CPD points, please contact our Quality Assurance team qa@rcseng.ac.uk.