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Registered charity · Surrey

The Pirbright Institute

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £53m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Education/training
Where
Surrey
Website
www.pirbright.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Pirbright Institute
Registered
1977

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£53m£60m
  • 2024£45m£55m
  • 2023£47m£51m
Earlier years
  • 2022£59m£47m
  • 2021£81m£48m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 67%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO CONDUCT AND PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON DISEASES OF ANIMALS, INCLUDING EXOTIC DISEASES AND TO DEVELOP APPROPRIATE METHODS FOR THEIR CONTROL, AND ON ALL MATTERS CONCERNED WITH ANIMAL HEALTH AND ANCILLARY THERETO AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; ANDTO PREPARE, EDIT, PRINT, PUBLISH, ISSUE, ACQUIRE AND CIRCULATE ANY LITERARY WORKS OR MATTERS TREATING OF OR BEARING ON THE SAID RESEARCH WORK, ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN COLLECTIONS OF MATERIAL, LITERATURE AND SCIENTIFIC DATA RELATING THERETO, DISSEMINATE INFORMATION OBTAINED THEREFROM, AND CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE PROVISION OF A LIBRARY OR LIBRARIES DESIGNED TO ASSIST SUCH WORK.

Grants received

2 grants · £65,826 total

360Giving 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 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £65,826 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £65,8802022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £-532022-04-01
Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 10

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 12Construction 2Tech and media 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£52.7m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

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

398 from 373 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
228824
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/01/1956NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 04/07/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/10/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/07/1988NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 24/03/1995NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 21/03/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/03/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/09/2009AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04/10/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/03/2013NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 21/11/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/12/2014 as amended on 19 Sept 2019
Companies House
Company number 00559784 · Active
Contact on the register
01483232441 · helen.watts@pirbright.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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