The Wellcome Trust is closing its Public Engagement Fund in advance of the announcement of new partnerships through which it will support public engagement work.
The biomedical funder said on 6 June that it decided to close the scheme after a review by the Institute for Voluntary Action Research, which found that applications to the fund lacked alignment with the trust’s public engagement strategy. As a result, Wellcome could only award funding to just 5 per cent of the applications it received.
Created in 2016, the Public Engagement Fund is a response-mode open funding scheme that supports projects aimed at engaging the public with health research with grants ranged between £25,000 and £251,000.
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