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Registered charity · Plymouth

RAY Lankester Fund

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £14k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Plymouth City
Website
www.mba.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14k£4k
  • 2024£13k£4k
  • 2023£13k£13k
Earlier years
  • 2022£10k£9k
  • 2021£9k£2k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING THE KNOWLEDGE OF MARINE ANIMALS OR MARINE PLANTS OR THE FURTHERANCE OF MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH BY THE DETECTION AND APPOINTMENT FROM TIME TO TIME OF AN INVESTI-GATOR PLYMOUTH LABORATORY OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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.

11.5y median 11.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (2)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Environment/conservation/heritage 3Education/training 2Animals 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Manufacturing 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£14k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
206855
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 11TH MAY 1911 WITH DEED OF VARIATION DATED 1ST JUNE 1948.
Contact on the register
01752633331 · info@mba.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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