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Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust is a registered charity (number 210183) based in London, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £589m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £589m (2025)
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Who leads it

No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The Wellcome Trust Limited.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana and more
Website
www.wellcome.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£589m£2051m
  • 2024£569m£1627m
  • 2023£542m£1661m
Earlier years
  • 2022£502m£1489m
  • 2021£410m£1365m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROTECT, PRESERVE AND ADVANCE ALL OR ANY ASPECTS OF THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF HUMANKIND AND TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION BY ENGAGING IN, ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING: (A) RESEARCH INTO ANY OF THE BIOSCIENCES; AND (B) THE DISCOVERY, INVENTION, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TREATMENTS, CURES, DIAGNOSTICS AND OTHER MEDICINAL AGENTS, METHODS AND PROCESSES THAT MAY IN ANY WAY RELIEVE ILLNESS, DISEASE, DISABILITY OR DISORDERS OF WHATEVER NATURE IN HUMAN BEINGS OR ANIMAL OR PLANT LIFE; AND (2) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION BY ENGAGING IN, ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING: (A) RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY OF ANY OF THE BIOSCIENCES; AND (B) THE STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF ANY OF THE BIOSCIENCES OR THE HISTORY OF ANY OF THE BIOSCIENCES.

Grants received

3 grants · £6,474,435 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £5,570,435 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £904,000

Most recent

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £196,4122017-04-01
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £5,374,0232016-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £904,0002001-11-12

Grants given

26,050 grants · £19,447,816,294 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top recipients

  • Wellcome Sanger Institute · £2,426,244,865 (224 grants)
  • University of Oxford · £2,351,556,309 (2,395 grants)
  • University College London · £1,348,260,473 (1,818 grants)
  • University of Cambridge · £1,244,758,777 (1,763 grants)
  • Wellcome Leap Inc. · £964,779,196 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The Pew Charitable Trusts £100,8912026-04-30
  • Institute for Public Policy Research £323,9472026-04-23
  • Peers for the Planet £90,8792026-04-22
  • Martingale Foundation £25,0002026-04-08
  • Mount Alexander Pty Ltd £38,5232026-04-03
Board analysis

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£569.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

2377 from 1969 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
210183
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 20/02/2001AS AMENDED ON 09/01/2009AS AMENDED ON 22/07/2010AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 04/10/2011AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 07 OCT 2025
Contact on the register
02076118888 · company.secretary@wellcome.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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