When your grant ends we ask you to complete a Final Expenditure Report (FER).
The Final Expenditure Report (FER) will be available on Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker(opens in a new tab) when your grant reaches its end date.
We will email to ask you or your host organisation to complete the FER (and end-of-grant report if we've asked for one). You will then have 90 days to complete and submit the report.
The report should:
We will process your Final Expenditure Report form and make the final payment. This may include a retained balance of 10%.
If you don't submit the FER within 90 days, you will receive a further email and then have an extra two weeks to submit it.
You must contact us if you need more time to submit the FER.
If you then fail to submit the FER, we will close your grant account and keep the unused funds. No further payment will be made.
We will also close your account and keep the funds if:
We won't make any payments after a grant account has been closed.
We will also ask you to send us an end-of-grant form if you hold one of these grants:
The process may be different for grants where:
If you hold one of these grants we'll contact you to let you know what you need to do.
Contact us if you have a question about payments.