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Bangor University

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £160m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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

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Public contracts won

2 contracts · £2,000,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • JNCC BUSINESS ASSOCIATES FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT TO SUPPORT NATURE CONSERVATION Buyer: JNCC SUPPORT CO £2,000,000 2026-09-10 Source: Find a Tender

    The Joint Nature Conservation Committee ("JNCC") is the statutory adviser to the UK Government and devolved administrations on UK and international nature conservation. JNCC and the conservation sector are under increasing pressure to deliv…

    Framework
  • HEIW Provision of Enhanced and Advanced Education and Training Buyer: Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) Value not published Date not published CPV 80000000 Source: Find a Tender

    Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) are undertaking a review of Health Professional Education and Training Services delivered to NHS Wales. HEIW sought to commission a multi-provider framework agreement to commission and procure f…

    Framework

About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Isle Of Anglesey, Flintshire, Wrexham, Gwynedd and more
Website
www.bangor.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£160m£177m
  • 2024£170m£141m
  • 2023£178m£172m
Earlier years
  • 2022£163m£200m
  • 2021£153m£155m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF BANGOR UNIVERSITY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE AND DISSEMINATE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE BY TEACHING AND RESEARCH AND, BY ITS CORPORATE LIFE AS WELL AS ITS ACADEMIC WORK, TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO OBTAIN THE FULL ADVANTAGES OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Grants received

52 grants · £8,764,402 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 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £8,132,577 (39 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £211,244 (5 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £124,154
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £119,341 (2 grants)
  • Nuffield Foundation · £113,333

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £30,0002025-09-08
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9802025-03-24
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £124,1542024-06-03
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £17,8532024-06-03
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £4622022-04-01
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.

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (5)

8
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 18Arts/culture/heritage/science 3Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 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.

Education 7Arts and leisure 6Other services 3

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£160.4m 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.

14.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 17.5 in 2021

1597 from 1592 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.
8%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1141565
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER, FIRST GRANTED 4 JUNE 1885, AND AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS AND OTHER AMENDMENTS, AND SUPPORTED BY STATUTES
Contact on the register
01248382413 · gwenan.hine@bangor.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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