The Wellcome Trust are the world’s largest charity, who support research into any aspect of human and animal health. They are a global charity who fund nearly £700 million each year on research.

There strategic funding areas are:

Biomedical Science – research into clinical, psychological and molecular processes
Humanities and Social Science – examining social and cultural aspects of health
Innovations – to bridge the gap between basic research and commercial application
Strategic – to support strategically important areas
Public engagement – encouraging discourse with the public and stakeholders

Wellcome pay direct costs of research only, with any allowances for institutional overheads.

There are several funding streams common to the biomedical science and humanities/social science priority areas:

Investigator awards
Fellowships
Seed awards
Collaborative awards
Seed awards

All these have deadlines, refer to the website using the above links for details.