updated funding statement (#288)

* updated funding statement

* Fix formatting in README.md

Author: jim-smith

README.md

@@ -73,3 +73,10 @@ You can then continue your normal release process.
 ## Developer docs
 
 Please see the [additional information](DEVELOPERS.md).
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+### Acknowledgement
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+This work was funded by UK Research and Innovation under  as part  of the [DARE UK](https://dareuk.org.uk) (Data and Analytics Research Environments UK) programme, delivered in partnership with Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK). The specific projects were:
+- Semi-Automatic Checking of Research Outputs (SACRO) [Grant Number MC_PC_23006] - a phase 1 Driver project
+- TREvolution [Grant Number MC_PC_24038] - phase 2:Transformative Components.
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