Wellcome Foundation - Public Engagement Fund Deadline: 9th July 2019
The Public Engagement Fund is open to individuals and organisations (commercial and not-for-profit). Projects must focus on health, although this doesn’t need to be the organisation’s main focus or core activity. Applicants can be working in the arts, culture, entertainment media, heritage, leisure, education, research, informal learning, social enterprise, non-profit and community sectors, or other fields. The Foundation are especially interested in work that promotes diversity and inclusion, and engages people and communities who are affected by social and economic disadvantage. The Foundation is looking for creative approaches to engage the public. Projects should do at least one of the following: • Empower people by helping them to access, use, respond to, and/or participate in health research and innovation. • Improve health research by making it more people-centred, to better understand people’s experiences and draw on that knowledge. • Help people to value and think critically about science, health research, innovation and the role these play in society. Projects can innovate or try new ways of working, develop an existing activity or learn from a successful engagement activity and replicate it with a new audience. o may face homelessness, but are not themselves housing advisors or caseworkers.
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