Registered charity · Southampton
National Oceanography Centre
- 8 trustees
- Income £88m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- David Jeremy DarrochChair · since 2022
- Clare Mary Petre HarbordTrustee · since 2024
- David Keith McsweeneyTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Hosein Khajeh-HosseinyTrustee · since 2025
- John Francis ClarkeTrustee · since 2025
- Professor Lisa Maureen CollinsTrustee · since 2025
- Rebecca Jane MunroTrustee · since 2025
- Sir Michael Dixon KBE BSCTrustee · since 2024
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
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Austria and more
- Website
- www.noc.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- National Oceanography Centre
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£88m£91m
- 2024£86m£82m
- 2023£85m£85m
Earlier years
- 2022£79m£74m
- 2021£67m£67m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5% · Government grants 75%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY, IN EACH CASE ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:4.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, IN PARTICULAR ENHANCING THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES, AND THE OCEAN AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE EARTH SYSTEM, AND FACILITATING THE USE AND APPLICATION OF THAT KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING, PARTICULARLY BY:4.1.1.1 UNDERTAKING AND CAUSING TO BE UNDERTAKEN RESEARCH INCLUDING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, EXPERIMENTATION, ANALYSIS, LONG-TERM OCEAN OBSERVATION, MONITORING, MAPPING, SURVEY AND MODELLING OF A HIGH INTERNATIONAL STANDARD AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF RESEARCH;4.1.1.2 PROVIDING ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING RESEARCH SHIPS AND OTHER MEASUREMENT PLATFORMS AND SYSTEMS TO THE OCEAN SCIENCE COMMUNITY;4.1.1.3 OBTAINING, MANAGING, CURATING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO DIGITAL DATA, SAMPLES AND OTHER SPECIMENS;4.1.1.4 BEING THE UK NATIONAL FOCUS FOR OCEAN SCIENCE, EXERCISING LEADERSHIP FOR AND PROMOTING CO-OPERATION WITH THE WIDER UNITED KINGDOM SCIENCE COMMUNITY, AND PROVIDING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY AND EXPERT REPRESENTATION FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES;4.1.1.6 INNOVATION OR BY ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING INNOVATION;4.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES, AND THE OCEAN AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE EARTH SYSTEM AND RELATIONSHIP WITH PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY BY:4.1.2.1 CONTRIBUTING TO THE EDUCATION (PARTICULARLY POSTGRADUATE HIGHER EDUCATION), TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS, TECHNOLOGISTS INCLUDING THE SUPERVISION OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS;4.1.2.2 SUPPORTING THE BUILDING OF MARINE RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CAPACITY IN OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD;4.1.2.3 COMMUNICATING WITH AND ENGAGING WITH THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH SEMINARS, TALKS, LEAFLETS, PAPERS AND OTHER MEANS;
Grants received
95 grants · £12,416,662 total360Giving 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 · £11,442,391 (84 grants)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £513,831 (4 grants)
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £460,441 (7 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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.
8 trustees on the board
- David Jeremy Darroch Chair since 2022
- Clare Mary Petre Harbord since 2024
- David Keith Mcsweeney since 2024
- Dr Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny since 2025
- John Francis Clarke since 2025
- Professor Lisa Maureen Collins since 2025
- Rebecca Jane Munro since 2025
- Sir Michael Dixon KBE BSC since 2024
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- David Jeremy Darroch Chair since 2022
- John Francis Clarke since 2025
- Professor Lisa Maureen Collins since 2025
Portfolio (5)
- Clare Mary Petre Harbord since 2024
- David Keith Mcsweeney since 2024
- Dr Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny since 2025
- Rebecca Jane Munro since 2025
- Sir Michael Dixon KBE BSC since 2024
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
2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.1 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1185265
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02 JUL 2018NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 20 AUG 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06 SEP 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 11444362 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02380596666
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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