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Registered charity · London

Science Media Centre

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £775k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.sciencemediacentre.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Science Media Centre
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£775k£868k
  • 2024£784k£796k
  • 2023£752k£731k
Earlier years
  • 2022£682k£661k
  • 2021£722k£595k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 22%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AND ALL THEIR RELATED BRANCHES AND DISCIPLINES, PARTICULARLY BY THE DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ABOUT SCIENCE TO THE MEDIA.

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.

13 trustees on the board

3.8y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

12
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 13General Charitable Purposes 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Tech and media 12Professional services 3Education 2

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£775k 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.

10.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 16.3 in 2021

12 from 10 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
1140827
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11 MAR 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 JUN 2022
Companies House
Company number 07560997 · Active
Contact on the register
0207 611 8300 · smc@sciencemediacentre.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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