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Wellcome Trust: Capital Grants Programme

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Overview

Capital funding to support learned societies or for science-based activity is also available from the Trust.

They will consider proposals for the funding of building, refurbishment and capital projects.

The Wellcome Trust will consider applications from organisations in support of at least one of the following types of project:

  • Projects that enhance public engagement with biomedical science related to museums, involving a building or collection housed within it - projects should normally involve collections of national or international significance and/or focus on buildings or sites of outstanding medical interest
  • Projects involving the renewal, replacement or redevelopment of an exhibition space - such projects should normally present science and technology exhibitions to the public, have been in existence for at least one year and attract a minimum of 30 000 visitors per annum
  • Other significant capital projects involving public-engagement activity.

General principles

  • Projects will normally be based in the UK or Republic of Ireland.
  • Projects should normally involve the commitment of funding from other sources (charitable, private or government) and/or significant direct input from the body running the collection or site or the host institution.
  • Projects must demonstrate that capital expenditure will be backed up by a commitment to ongoing revenue funding from the body running the project or the host institution.
  • Their charitable status requires that commercial activities and commercially based research be kept to a minimum in space funded by them. Any such activity would require their prior approval.

Projects will only be considered if they fulfil most of the following criteria:

  • relate to public engagement of science or the history of medicine in its broadest terms – ie its technical, scientific, material, architectural, social and cultural history
  • demonstrate their added value and an innovative approach to the issue of making biomedical science and the history of medicine relevant to contemporary audiences
  • involve collections of national/international significance or focus on buildings or sites of outstanding medical interest
  • are normally based in the UK or Ireland (consideration will occasionally be given to projects with an important regional profile - exceptions will be considered where the international significance of the project is evident)
  • present a clear analysis of anticipated audiences for the proposed scheme - who the project is likely to appeal to, and in what numbers - and demonstrate a workable marketing strategy for reaching that audience
  • clearly demonstrate that our capital expenditure will subsequently be backed up by a commitment to revenue funding from the organisation responsible for running the project - we must be satisfied that the projects we considers funding will remain accessible to audiences for a significant period of time
  • involve funding from other sources (charitable, private or government) and/or significant direct input from the body running the collection or site.