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Wellcome Public Engagement Fund

The Wellcome Trust is taking applications to provide funding for anyone with a great idea for engaging the public in conversations about health-related science and research. They will fund activities, projects, creative spaces, people and organisations. Your team should have the right expertise to develop and deliver the activity. This should include a subject expert, such as a researcher in a science or health-related discipline, or a health professional. The expert can lead the activity, be a collaborator or take on an advisory role.

The fund is open to anyone, including those working in:

• the arts
• entertainment media
• museums and heritage
• leisure, sport and tourism
• education and informal learning
• the community, charity and public sectors.

Your proposal should:

• enable the public to explore health-related science and research in ways that are relevant to them
• take an inventive approach, expand on existing work or offer a new perspective on a subject
• meet the Wellcome Trust’s public engagement vision.

For 2017, Wellcome is particularly interested in proposals that:

• explore the impact of a changing environment on our health
• aim to achieve better health outcomes
• test new ways of engaging people with health-related science and research
• reach communities in the top 25 per cent most deprived neighbourhoods in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

The scheme at a glance:

Proposal stage: Research and development, Production and project delivery, Developing practice and building networks

Where your activity will take place: UK, Republic of Ireland, Some low- and middle-income countries

Level of funding: You can apply for anything from £5,000 up to £3 million

Duration of funding: Up to 5 years.

There are no application deadlines – you can apply online at any time.

Please contact your Researcher Facilitator or Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) if you’d like to discuss ideas. For more information please visit this link.