How to get the final 10 percent of your grant funds

The rule applies to all standard Wellcome grants including:

• Investigator Awards
• Equipment Grants
• Fellowships
• Studentships
• Strategic Awards.

The rule doesn't apply to grants where:

• award payments are conditional on milestones
• payments require specific Wellcome approval
• a specific agreement has been made.

Your organisation must complete a Final Expenditure Report via Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker(opens in a new tab) (WTGT).

The form will be available on WTGT when your grant reaches its end date.

Find out more about the Final Expenditure Report.

If we've also asked you to send us an end-of-grant report, we will only pay the final 10% of your total budget if:

• you have sent us your Final Expenditure Report
• you have sent us your end-of-grant report and the research publications detailed in your report comply with our open access policy.

If you have a joint grant (where funds for the project are awarded to two or more organisations) the way we release the final 10% depends on how we ask you to report on the outcomes of your research.

If we’ve asked you to use Researchfish

Each host organisation must complete a Final Expenditure Report.

We will release the final 10% for each organisation once we have approved their report.

If we’ve asked you to complete an end-of-grant report form

You must send us:

• an end-of-grant report form
• a Final Expenditure Report from each organisation.

We will release the final 10% for each organisation once we have approved the reports.

If your grants won’t finish at the same time, we will only release the 10% to each organisation when you’ve submitted:

• an end-of-grant report - this should be completed by the grantholder whose work will finish last
• a Final Expenditure Report from each organisation.