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Registered charity · Cambridge

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £547k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.faraday.cam.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£547k£776k
  • 2024£994k£865k
  • 2023£757k£810k
Earlier years
  • 2022£752k£846k
  • 2021£496k£842k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH IN ALL ASPECTS OF THAT SUBJECT, PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND BOOKS AND IMPROVING THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF ISSUES IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION BY DISSEMINATING RESEARCH RESULTS MORE WIDELY BEYOND THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY AND THROUGH LECTURES, COURSES AND THE PUBLICATION OF OTHER EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, AND TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE PURPOSE STATED ABOVE. THE CHARITY HAS A CHRISTIAN ETHOS, AND ACCORDINGLY IN FURTHERING THE ABOVE OBJECTS THE MAIN FOCUS OF ITS RESEARCH WORK IS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, AND IT SHALL EMPHASISE THE EDUCATION OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN ISSUES OF SCIENCE AND FAITH, BUT SHALL ALSO WELCOME AND SEEK TO ENGAGE WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF OTHER FAITH TRADITIONS, AND WITH THOSE OF ANY FAITH OR NONE.

Grants received

1 grant · £60,000 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.

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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.

7y median 8y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure
11.3y
average years in governance
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 14Religious Activities 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 12General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 9Finance 7Professional services 6

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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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£547k 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.

19.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 39.7 in 2021

18 from 17 in 2022
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
1153702
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 MAR 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 DEC 2014AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12 JUN 2017 as amended on 09 Nov 2018 as amended on 12 Dec 2019 as amended on 10 Sep 2020
Companies House
Company number 08426223 · Active
Contact on the register
01223246696 · dra24@cam.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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