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Registered charity · Uk

Earlham Institute

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Colombia
Website
www.earlham.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Earlham Institute
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£15m
  • 2024£14m£13m
  • 2023£16m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£13m
  • 2021£11m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 75%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE BIOLOGICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCE BY UNDERTAKING AND PROMOTING RESEARCH RELATING TO GENOMES AND THE GENOME FUNCTIONS OF ORGANISMS, IN PARTICULAR BY CARRYING OUT THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES:1. TO GENERATE AND ANALYSE GENOME SEQUENCES FOR THE FULL RANGE OF LIVING ORGANISMS;2. TO GENERATE, RECORD AND STORE REFERENCE GENOME SEQUENCES;3. TO RESEARCH THE WAYS IN WHICH GENOME FUNCTION AND VARIATION MAY BE EXPLOITED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;4. TO DEVELOP AND EXPLOIT GENOMIC TECHNOLOGIES, SO AS TO IDENTIFY AND MEASURE GENOMES AND GENOME PRODUCTS;5. TO DEVELOP BIOINFORMATICS IN RELATION TO GENOME RESEARCH, AND TO ANALYSE, INTERPRET AND EXPLOIT BIOINFORMATIC DATA IN RELATION TO GENOMES; AND6. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY TRAINING PERSONS ENGAGED IN OR ASSOCIATED WITH GENOMICS, GENOME BIOLOGY, BIO-INFORMATICS AND RELATED SUBJECTS.

Grants received

64 grants · £10,060,790 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £8,227,657 (42 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £1,833,133 (22 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £33,4902024-10-31
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £208,0902024-07-30
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £1,1572024-06-24
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £13,9442024-04-03
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £160,9082024-02-13
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.

2.8y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.6y
average years in governance
9
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 9Education/training 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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 11Hospitality 2Business services 1

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£14.1m latest income
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.

9.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 11.3 in 2021

107 from 108 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1136213
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23 MAR 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 MAY 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 JUN 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 JUN 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 JAN 2014AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13 JUN 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 DEC 2016
Companies House
Company number 06855533 · Active
Contact on the register
01603450861 · enquiries@earlham.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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