Strategic Plan 2005-2010: Making a difference - Wellcome Trust

CELEBRATING SUCCESSIn our first five-year Plan,we highlighted four areas of growth:• clinical, patient-oriented research• public engagement• translation of basic research findings into commercialapplications that lead to health benefits• international research.We have made significant progress on all these fronts.Clinical, patient-oriented research• Building on the success of the five UK Clinical ResearchFacilities we set up in partnership with the Departmentof Health and the Scottish Executive. We are establishinga new initiative to assist in translating basic scientificknowledge into clinical practice.Public engagement• Committing £25 million to a £51 million initiative with theDepartment for Education and Skills, to establish a nationalnetwork of Science Learning Centres. These will helpteachers to gain support and expertise in delivering scienceeducation, and to inspire young people about science.• Introducing a new £3 million per year programme for publicengagement, Engaging Science, which supports both largenational activities as well as small events across the UK.These will build bridges between science and the public.• Funding 20 projects in partnership to update scienceexhibitions and museums for families and children, includingnew developments at the Centre for Life in Newcastle,@Bristol, ThinkTank in Birmingham, and the HunterianMuseum, London. We also funded the redisplay of theFoundling Museum, which tells the story of the FoundlingHospital – London’s first home for abandoned children,which also housed the first public art gallery in London.16STRATEGIC PLAN 2005–2010CELEBRATING SUCCESS