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Description
Wellcome exists to improve health by helping great ideas to thrive.We support researchers, we take on big health challenges, we campaign for better science, and we help everyone get involved with science and health research. We are a politically and financially independent foundation.
Also known as
- Wellcome Trust
- Will Charities of Sir Henry S Wellcome (the Museum and Library Charity)
- The Wellcome Trust
CCEW Charity number
Registered
Postcode
NW1 2BE
Website
Domain
wellcome.org
Latest income
£502,291,234 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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- wellcome.org
- Charity Commission England and Wales
- CharityBase
- Giving is Great
- Twitter: @wellcometrust
- Facebook: facebook.com/wellcometrust
- Wikipedia: Wellcome Trust
Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia links from Wikidata
Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.
Area of operation outside the UK
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Burkina Faso
- Brazil
- Botswana
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Cameroon
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cyprus
- Germany
- Denmark
- Spain
- France
- Ghana
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- India
- Italy
- Japan
- Kenya
- Korea, Republic of
- Sri Lanka
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Nigeria
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Nepal
- New Zealand
- Peru
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Uganda
- United States
- South Africa
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 0 inactive records, from 2 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 210183 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
Wellcome Trust (this record)
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Scientific research and testing services
K10
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
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Charitable activities
CA» Policy campaigning and advocacyCA103 -
Health
HE -
Research
RS -
Research
RS» ScienceRS103
Theme (CCEW)
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Education/training
102 -
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
103 -
Arts/culture/heritage/science
109
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
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The General Public/mankind
207
Activities (CCEW)
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Makes Grants To Individuals
301 -
Makes Grants To Organisations
302 -
Provides Other Finance
303 -
Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
305 -
Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
308 -
Other Charitable Activities
310
Scale of operation
- National and Overseas
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 1962-10-04 |
Registered as a charity |
|
| 2004-09-30 | 258,459,000 | 421,552,000 |
| 2005-09-30 | 295,018,000 | 533,503,000 |
| 2006-09-30 | 301,196,000 | 531,292,000 |
| 2007-09-30 | 293,744,823 | 559,777,577 |
| 2008-09-30 | 258,108,071 | 742,292,535 |
| 2009-09-30 | 190,997,118 | 745,044,554 |
| 2010-09-30 | 230,347,899 | 769,378,837 |
| 2011-09-30 | 254,389,387 | 728,144,624 |
| 2012-09-30 | 242,435,287 | 837,094,316 |
| 2013-09-30 | 281,489,136 | 872,325,257 |
| 2014-09-30 | 337,962,640 | 869,843,888 |
| 2015-09-30 | 438,687,590 | 1,193,293,118 |
| 2016-09-30 | 390,300,298 | 1,170,406,717 |
| 2017-09-30 | 425,285,020 | 1,280,176,766 |
| 2018-09-30 | 484,774,023 | 781,218,360 |
| 2019-09-30 | 481,005,644 | 1,331,304,164 |
| 2020-09-30 | 463,593,138 | 1,184,381,848 |
| 2021-09-30 | 410,257,213 | 1,365,367,666 |
| 2022-09-30 | 502,291,234 | 1,488,848,304 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2022 £ |
2021 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 2,081 | 2,065 |
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | 475 | 550 |
| Volunteers | - | - |
| Trustees | 1 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
Statement of financial activities for year ended .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2022 £m |
2021
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | ||
| Donations and other voluntary income | - | - |
| Legacies | - | - |
| Endowments | - | - |
| Donations and legacies | - | - |
| Income from charitable activities | 28.9 | 24.1 |
| Income from other trading activities | - | - |
| Income from investments | 365.9 | 286.4 |
| Other income | 107.5 | 99.8 |
| Total | 502.3 | 410.3 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Investment management | 74.8 | 109.8 |
| Other spending on raising funds | - | - |
| Spending on raising funds | 74.8 | 109.8 |
| Grants to institutions | 967.3 | 847.9 |
| Other charitable activities | 370.5 | 331.2 |
| Charitable activities | 1,337.7 | 1,179.1 |
| Other spending | 76.3 | 76.5 |
| Total | 1,488.8 | 1,365.4 |
| Net income / (expenditure) | (986.6) | (955.1) |
Balance sheet at .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2022 £m |
2021
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fixed assets | ||
| Tangible and intangible assets | 402.3 | 412.5 |
| Investment assets | 40,342.7 | 41,747.5 |
| 40,745.0 | 42,160.1 | |
| Current assets | ||
| Current investment assets | - | - |
| Cash | 33.7 | 44.3 |
| Other current assets | 77.7 | 65.0 |
| 111.4 | 109.3 | |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due within one year | (1,509.5) | (1,160.4) |
| Net current assets | (1,398.1) | (1,051.1) |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 39,346.9 | 41,109.0 |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due after one year | (4,826.9) | (4,623.4) |
| Net assets (excluding pension scheme) | 34,520.0 | 36,485.6 |
| Defined benefit pension scheme | 81.3 | (225.0) |
| Net assets (including pension scheme) | 34,601.3 | 36,260.6 |
| Funds | ||
| Endowment funds | - | - |
| Restricted funds | 17.5 | 19.8 |
| Unrestricted funds | 34,583.8 | 36,240.8 |
| 34,601.3 | 36,260.6 | |
| 2022 £ |
2021 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Contracts with government | ||
| Income from government contracts | 46,975,228 | 25,066,808 |
| Government contracts as % of total income | 9.4% | 6.1% |
| Number of government contracts | 2 | 3 |
| Government grants | ||
| Income from government grants | 1,236,312 | 4,881,597 |
| Government grants as % of total income | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Number of government grants | 12 | 31 |
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
| Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) Phase 2 |
£196,412 | UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) Phase 3 - UKCDR Secretariat and Strategic Coherence of ODA-Research (SCOR) Board | ||
|
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Epidemics and Global Health Security Research Programme (Epidemics and GHS) |
£5,374,023 | Research on Disease Outbreaks, to inform more effective preparedness and response, in partnership with Wellcome | ||
|
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Heritage Grants |
£904,000 | Grant to The Wellcome Trust |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- Cabinet Office (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
View this organisation's 360Giving published grants on GrantNav.
| 2023 | 572 grants | £544,624,346 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 553 grants | £1,145,908,551 |
| 2021 | 906 grants | £861,894,610 |
| 2020 | 823 grants | £935,915,278 |
| 2019 | 1,295 grants | £807,405,521 |
| 2018 | 1,287 grants | £529,486,335 |
| 2017 | 1,236 grants | £785,578,790 |
| 2016 | 1,636 grants | £881,225,329 |
| 2015 | 1,480 grants | £686,587,915 |
| 2014 | 1,333 grants | £550,916,446 |
| 2013 | 1,150 grants | £597,673,149 |
| 2012 | 1,146 grants | £567,439,452 |
| 2011 | 1,184 grants | £467,726,902 |
| 2010 | 1,351 grants | £582,483,210 |
| 2009 | 1,230 grants | £549,920,744 |
| 2008 | 1,361 grants | £670,549,072 |
| 2007 | 1,051 grants | £429,530,299 |
| 2006 | 1,046 grants | £329,085,508 |
| 2005 | 216 grants | £78,544,078 |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- The Wellcome Trust (20,856 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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