The Sainsbury Laboratory

Registered charity 1065510 Registered since 1997

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

8y median 7y

average tenure

12y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Dr Appolinaire Djikeng since 2019
Prof Neil Gow since 2014

13.3y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 4

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 8Business services 2Agriculture 1

Gaps to watch

Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£14.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.0 in 2021

85 from 90 in 2021

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation Similar size; both Education
Tudor Hall School Similar size; both Education
Intouni Similar size; both Education
The Merchant Taylors' Schools Crosby Similar size; both Education
Nuffield College in the University of Oxford Similar size; both Education
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College Similar size; both Education

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Website	www.tsl.ac.uk
Email	debbie.feather@tsl.ac.uk
Phone	01603450420
Address	THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY, NORWICH RESEARCH PARK, NORWICH, NR4 7UH

Finances

£14,180,424 latest income

Year	Income	Spending
2021	£10,053,174	£9,419,418
2022	£9,357,012	£9,570,782
2023	£10,772,434	£9,961,747
2024	£12,717,776	£10,386,668
2025	£14,180,424	£12,325,613

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Sponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY WORLDWIDE BY UNDERTAKING RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND BY TRAINING RESEARCH SCIENTISTS

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 2 APRIL 1997 AS AMENDED 20 MAY 2004 as amended on 28 Feb 2018

Trustees (4)

4trustees

63median age

0aged 70+

Dr Appolinaire Djikengage band 55-59 since 2019
Peter Heskethage band 60-64
Prof Neil Gowage band 65-69 since 2014
Professor Mark Searceyage band 60-64 since 2021

Linked company (Companies House)

The Sainsbury Laboratory · 03346853 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 02/04/1997

4 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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