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The Faraday Institution

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £33m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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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.

2.5y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

9
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 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11

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

Professional services 17Manufacturing 3Utilities 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£33.3m 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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

26 from 13 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
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
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