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Registered charity · Plymouth

The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom is a registered charity (number 1155893) based in Plymouth, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Dr Gillian Rider since 2019. Latest income £6.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £6.1m (2025)
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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Devon, Plymouth City
Website
www.mba.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.1m£6.5m
  • 2024£5.3m£6.8m
  • 2023£8.9m£6.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.1m£6.0m
  • 2021£5.2m£5.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 19% · Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS HEREBY CONSTITUTED ARE TO PROMOTE THE INVESTIGATION, AND TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE, OF THE SEAS AND MARINE LIFE, INCLUDING THE USE OF MARINE AND OTHER ORGANISMS FOR BASIC BIOSCIENCES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (WHERE BIOSCIENCES MEANS MARINE BIOLOGY IN ITS WIDEST SENSE).

Grants received

13 grants · £1,086,329 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 · £653,229 (10 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £400,000
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £33,100 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £29,4692024-10-09
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £9,5792024-04-02
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £9,7032024-01-15
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £33,3632023-07-05
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £66,1472023-07-05
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

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

3
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 13Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 11Environment/conservation/heritage 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 2Professional services 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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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£6.1m 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.

29.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 34.3 in 2021

89 from 87 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.
31%
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
1155893
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 26/07/2013
Companies House
Company number RC000865 · Active
Contact on the register
01752 426493 · info@mba.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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