Registered charity · Didcot
The Faraday Institution
- 11 trustees
- Income £33m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Esther TaylorTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Fabrice StassinTrustee · since 2026
- Dr Steven Charles CowleyTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Venkat SrinivasanTrustee · since 2023
- Hanno KirnerTrustee · since 2022
- Isobel Sheldon OBETrustee · since 2021
- Mark Christopher NewmanTrustee · since 2021
- Professor Dame Lynn GladdenTrustee · since 2023
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- Professor Neville Stuart JacksonTrustee · since 2026
- Professor Rachel O'ReillyTrustee · since 2025
- Robin Charles BrundleTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.faraday.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Faraday Institution
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£33m£33m
- 2024£29m£33m
- 2023£35m£33m
Earlier years
- 2022£30m£28m
- 2021£24m£26m
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE RESTRICTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ENGAGING IN, ENCOURAGING, SUPPORTING AND EXPLOITING, BY WHATEVER MEANS, HIGH-QUALITY RESEARCH, AND RELATED TRAINING AND POLICY ADVICE, IN ENERGY CAPTURE, CONVERSION AND STORAGE, WITH A VIEW TO SECURING OUTCOMES WHICH WILL ADD TO SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, DELIVER ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS IN TERMS OF DECARBONISATION AND IMPROVED AIR QUALITY AND BENEFIT THE LIFE, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF HUMANKIND.
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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.
11 trustees on the board
- Dr Esther Taylor since 2022
- Dr Fabrice Stassin since 2026
- Dr Steven Charles Cowley since 2024
- Dr Venkat Srinivasan since 2023
- Hanno Kirner since 2022
- Isobel Sheldon OBE since 2021
- Mark Christopher Newman since 2021
- Professor Dame Lynn Gladden since 2023
- Professor Neville Stuart Jackson since 2026
- Professor Rachel O'Reilly since 2025
- Robin Charles Brundle since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Dr Esther Taylor since 2022
- Dr Fabrice Stassin since 2026
- Dr Steven Charles Cowley since 2024
- Dr Venkat Srinivasan since 2023
- Hanno Kirner since 2022
- Isobel Sheldon OBE since 2021
- Mark Christopher Newman since 2021
- Professor Dame Lynn Gladden since 2023
- Professor Neville Stuart Jackson since 2026
- Professor Rachel O'Reilly since 2025
- Robin Charles Brundle since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1176500
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12 SEP 2017 as amended on 08 May 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 10959095 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01235425300 · finance@faraday.ac.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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