The Science Media Centre is housed within the Wellcome Trust but is independent from any single scientific body. To preserve our independence, funding has been sought from a wide variety of sources.  Donations to the Centre are capped at 5% of the total annual running costs, with the exception of the Wellcome Trust, the Drayson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Media groups, charities, universities, industry and professional associations are all represented amongst the funders of the Science Media Centre. The list below shows the organisations that have committed funds towards our running costs in the last twelve months:

(To date: November 2011)

Current Funders

• Abbott Laboratories
• Airwave Solutions
• Alcohol Research UK
• Alzheimer's Research UK
• Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) including Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard & Metro
• Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC)
• AstraZeneca
• Baxter
• Bayer Plc
• Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
• Boeing
• BP International Ltd
• Bristol University
• British Pharmacological Society
• British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Cancer Research UK
• Cardiff University
• Chemical Industries Association (CIA)
• Chilled Food Association (CFA)
• Coca-Cola
• Colgate-Palmolive Company
• CropLife International
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
• Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
• Diamond Light Source
• The Drayson Foundation
• Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
• EDF Energy
• Elsevier BV
• EnergySolutions
• Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
• Food Standards Agency (FSA)
• The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
• GE Healthcare
• GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
• Human Tissue Authority (HTA)
• Imperial College London
• Independent Climate Change Email Review
• Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST)
• Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Techology (IMarEST)
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
• Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET)
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
• John Wiley & Sons Inc
• L'Oreal UK
• Life Technologies
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Mental Health Foundation
• Mental Health Research Network
• Mental Health Research Network Cymru
• Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) Limited
• The Met Office
• Mobile Manufacturers Forum
• Mobile Operators Association (MOA)
• Monsanto UK Ltd
• Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association
• National Grid
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Nature
• New Scientist
• News International Ltd (including Times, Sunday Times, Sun, and News of the World)
• Novartis
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
• PR Works
• Oxitec
• The Physiological Society
• Research Councils UK (RCUK)
• Rolls-Royce
• Royal Academy of Engineering
• Royal College of Pathologists
• Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP)
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• The Royal Society
• Sanofi Pasteur MSD
• SAGE
• Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
• Scottish Mental Health Research Network
• Shell UK Limited
• Siemens Plc
• Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM)
• Society for General Microbiology (SGM)
• Society for Radiological Protection
• Society of Biology
• South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Charitable Funds
• Springer science+business media
• Syngenta
• Tate & Lyle Plc
• Technology Strategy Board
• UCB
• UK Cleaning Products Industry Association (UKPCI)
• Unilever UK
• University of Portsmouth
• Wellcome Trust*
• Wi-Fi Alliance

Previous Funders

• AAAS and the magazine Science
• Allied Domecq
• ARM Holdings Plc
• Association for Science Education
• BASF Plc
• Beeson Gregory
• BBC Worldwide
• Boots UK Ltd
• British Computer Society (BCS)
• British Energy Plc
• British Geological Survey (BGS)
• British Embassy in Washington
• British Land Plc
• British Neuroscience Association
• British Transplantation Society Council
• Cadbury Plc
• Charlie Waller Memorial Trust
• Chiron Vaccines
• CNAP Artemisia Research Project
• Coalition for Medical Progress (CMP)
• Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the European Union (CIAA)
• Conoco (UK) Ltd
• Conoco-Phillips
• Co-operative Group (CWS) Limited
• Copus
• Daily Express
• Dixons Group Plc
• The Dow Chemical Company
• Du Pont (UK) Ltd
• Eli Lilly & Company
• Emergent Biosolutions Inc
• Engineering UK
• Environment Agency
• European Science Foundation (ESF)
• ExxonMobil
• The Government Office for Science (GO-S)
• JH Ritblat Charitable Trust
• Kraft Foods Inc
• Lever Faberge
• The Marmot Review
• Merlin Biosciences
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
• Northern Foods
• Parkinson's Disease Society
• Pfizer Limited
• Philips UK
• The Posen Foundation
• Powderject
• QinetiQ
• Rathbones
• RDS
• Regenesys
• Rethink
• Rothamsted Research
• Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
• Royal College of Physicians
• Royal Society of Medicine
• Science Council
• Simon Best
• Smith & Nephew Plc
• Tesco Limited
• Trinity Mirror Plc
• University of Teesside
• Vodafone Group
• Weizmann UK
• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Wyeth