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Registered charity · London

The Francis Crick Institute Limited

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £246m (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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.crick.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Francis Crick Institute Limited
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£246m£255m
  • 2024£231m£238m
  • 2023£213m£210m
Earlier years
  • 2022£186m£197m
  • 2021£175m£188m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROMOTION AND CARRYING OUT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OF ALL ASPECTS OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE IN PARTICULAR THE FOLLOWING:1 ESTABLISHING, OPERATING AND MANAGING A CENTRE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION;2 ENGAGING IN, ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING:2.1 RESEARCH INTO ANY OF THE BIOSCIENCES; 2.2 THE DISCOVERY, INVENTION, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF PREVENTIONS, TREATMENTS, CURES, DIAGNOSTICS AND OTHER MEDICAL AGENTS, METHODS AND PROCESSES THAT MAY IN ANY WAY PREVENT OR RELIEVE ILLNESS, DISEASE, DISABILITY OR DISORDERS OF WHATEVER NATURE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL FORMS OF CANCER); AND 3 DEVELOPING AND TRAINING SCIENTISTS AND SUPPORTING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS.

Grants received

40 grants · £7,989,698 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 · £7,934,298 (36 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £30,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £25,400

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £20,0002026-02-09
  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002024-03-18
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £25,0642023-12-21
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £126,6072023-09-06
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £75,1922023-08-14
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.

3.8y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.3y
average years in governance
10
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 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1

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 15Other services 13Education 7

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£246.2m 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.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 33.3 in 2021

1458 from 1437 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
1140062
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/04/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/01/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04/07/2012 as amended on 04 Dec 2015 as amended on 31 Jan 2019 as amended on 15 Apr 2024
Companies House
Company number 06885462 · Active
Contact on the register
02037960000 · company.secretary@crick.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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