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Wellcome (delivered in partnership with Social Finance)
Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize UK 2026-2028
Amount
Up to £400,000
Deadline
May 8, 2026
Odds
3 of 6 funded
Effort
weeks
Can you get this?
✓Teams developing new digital tools for mental health
✓Must use existing mental health data innovatively
✓Focuses on anxiety, depression, and psychosis
✓Open to academia and industry participants
Your real odds
Six teams get prototype funding and three advance to the full award, so the cut happens twice.
The first cohort ran from 2022 to 2024 and produced tools now used by researchers and policymakers, which signals that the bar for demonstrated impact is high and the reviewers know what good looks like.
What it takes
Develop concept using existing mental health dataweeks
Submit application with budget and form
Complete prototype development with workshops and mentoring9 months
Complete final development phase if top 39 months
Worth knowing
The programme explicitly values lived experience integrated throughout tool development, and teams that build this in from the start are better aligned with the evaluation criteria than those who treat it as a late-stage addition.
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