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 healthinfectious disease and climate and health.

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Wellcome in numbers

Our work in the year 2024/25

1.9 billion british poundsbillion
Our charitable expenditure, supporting science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
active grants
across 133 countries, with a total value of £7.3 billion.
visitors
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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