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Wellcome Annual Report 2022
Find out how Wellcome performed in 2021/22, with commentaries from our Chair and Director, reports on what we did last year and reviews of our finances and investments.
What's inside
- Reports and financial statements relating to our work in the year from 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022.
Who this is for
- Anyone interested in how Wellcome makes money, how we spend it, and what impact our activities have on our mission of improving health and taking on the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
- An accessible version of the report is available here.
Highlights
With a record year of spend on our new strategy, new funding schemes launched and a renewed commitment to equity and diversity, 2022 was a turning point for Wellcome.
- In 2021/22, Wellcome spent £1.4 billion supporting ambitious discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and actions taking on the urgent health challenges facing everyone – Climate and Health, Mental Health and Infectious Diseases.
- We are delivering our new strategy, and plan to spend £16 billion over the next ten years.
- We were a founding donor to the World Bank’s Pandemic Fund, pooling international funding for projects to identify, prevent and manage outbreaks of infectious diseases.
- Recognising the interconnections between climate and health, Wellcome helped put the health impacts of climate change high on the global agenda at COP27 and beyond.
How much has Wellcome spent on charitable activities since 2017/18?
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Source: Wellcome
In 2021/22 Wellcome's charitable expenditure reached £1,366 million – a record year for funding life-changing research. Over the next decade we have committed to spending a further £16 billion to deliver our strategy.
“The focus of everyone working for and with Wellcome will now be on delivering the goals we’ve set, pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge and helping to solve the urgent health challenges of our time.”
Julia Gillard
Chair
Wellcome
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