Wellcome Annual Report 2025
Find out about Wellcome’s impact in 2024/25, with notes from our Chair and CEO, reports on what we did last year and reviews of our finances and investments.
Science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone
Wellcome is a global charitable foundation. We want everyone to benefit from science’s potential to improve health and save lives.
We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
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Wellcome in numbers
Our work in the year 2024/25
£1.91.9 billion british poundsbillion
Our charitable expenditure, supporting science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
2,723active grants
across 133 countries, with a total value of £7.3 billion.
403,000visitors
to the Wellcome Collection, our free museum and library in London.
When Science Finds a Way
Our podcast is back with a third season, uncovering more incredible stories of how scientists and communities are tackling the urgent health challenges of our time.
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