RAY Lankester Fund

Registered charity 206855 Registered since 1962

Operates: Plymouth City

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.

trustees on the board

11.5y median 11.5y

average tenure

15y

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

8.4y

average years in governance

1 vs 1 portfolio

first-time trustees

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage

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

Commercial experience

Manufacturing 1

Gaps to watch

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

Boards that share trustees

Wildlife Research and Management Trust Fund 1 shared trustee
Plymouth Marine Science and Education Foundation 1 shared trustee
The Warden and Scholars of the House OR College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford 1 shared trustee

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Related organisations

Plymouth Marine Science and Education Foundation 1 shared trustee
Wildlife Research and Management Trust Fund 1 shared trustee
The Warden and Scholars of the House OR College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford 1 shared trustee
Fleet AIR ARM Memorial Church Trust Similar size; both Environment
The Drake Trust Similar size; both Environment
Reeth and District Young Farmers'Club Similar size; both Environment

Boards that overlap with this one through shared trustees, or govern in the same field. Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Website	www.mba.ac.uk
Email	info@mba.ac.uk
Phone	01752633331
Address	The Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, PLYMOUTH, PL1 2PB

Finances

£14,132 latest income

Year	Income	Spending
2021	£9,049	£2,213
2022	£9,532	£8,521
2023	£12,578	£12,792
2024	£13,168	£3,661
2025	£14,132	£4,122

What it does

What

Environment/conservation/heritage

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsSponsors Or Undertakes Research

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.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 11TH MAY 1911 WITH DEED OF VARIATION DATED 1ST JUNE 1948.

Trustees (3)

3trustees

74median age

1aged 70+

Professor Michael Edwin Akam FRSage 74 since 2011
Professor Peter William Harold Holland
Prof William Wilson since 2018

Connected charities (3)

Wildlife Research and Management Trust Fund 1 shared trustee
The Warden and Scholars of the House OR College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford 1 shared trustee
Plymouth Marine Science and Education Foundation 1 shared trustee

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