The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Registered charity 1091222 Registered since 2002

Operates: Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Cambodia, Philippines

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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.

4.5y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11

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 18Property 8Finance 5

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£16.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

5.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.9 in 2021

179 from 177 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.

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Also active in the same field

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Contact

Websitewww.pml.ac.uk
Emailcosec@pml.ac.uk
Phone01752633100
AddressPLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY, PROSPECT PLACE, PLYMOUTH, PL1 3DH

Finances

£16,390,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£14,282,000£13,559,000
2022£15,021,000£14,557,000
2023£14,000,000£14,035,000
2024£15,664,000£16,105,000
2025£16,390,000£17,165,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING MARINE AND ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND DISSEMINATE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND DATA AND IDEAS GENERATED IN THE COURSE OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUCH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/03/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/03/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/03/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/03/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/07/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/03/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/12/2013 as amended on 30 Apr 2021 as amended on 21 Nov 2022 as amended on 29 Mar 2024

Trustees (11)

11trustees
57median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Plymouth Marine Laboratory · 04178503 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 13/03/2001

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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