Registered charity · Plymouth
Plymouth Marine Science and Education Foundation
- 5 trustees
- Income £4k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Icarus Allen, Richard Thompson.
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Devon
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4k£7k
- 2024£5k£5k
- 2023£3k£7k
Earlier years
- 2022£5k£5k
- 2021£6k£3k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN MARINE SCIENCE AND RELATED SUBJECTS IN PARTICULAR BY(I) THE PROVISION OF FUNDS TO ENABLE SELECTED STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS FROM THE DIVING DISEASES RESEARCH CENTRE, THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE NATIONAL MARINE AQUARIUM, PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY, PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY MARINE INSTITUTE AND THE SIR ALISTER HARDY FOUNDATION FOR OCEAN SCIENCE TO ATTEND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS OR ADVANCED TRAINING COURSES IN THE MARINE SCIENCES(II) THE PROVISION OF FUNDS TO PROMOTE MARINE SCIENCE AND RELATED SUBJECTS SUCH AS PUBLIC LECTURES AND SEMINARS IN PLYMOUTH AND AN ANNUAL PLYMOUTH RESEARCH STUDENT CONFERENCE
Board analysis
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.
3 trustees on the board
- Dr Gary Smerdon since 2011
- Ian Robert Bruce Mcfadzen since 2024
- Icarus Allen since 2019
- Prof William Wilson since 2016
- Richard Thompson since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Gary Smerdon since 2011
- Icarus Allen since 2019
- Prof William Wilson since 2016
- Richard Thompson since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Dr Gary Smerdon since 2011
- Ian Robert Bruce Mcfadzen since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Prof William Wilson since 2016
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1113275
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 08/02/2005AS AMENDED ON 09/03/2009AS AMENDED ON 27/01/2012AS AMENDED ON 16/06/2014
- Contact on the register
- 01752 426415 · masm@MBA.ac.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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