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Registered charity · Widnes

Catalyst Science Discovery Centre and Museum Trust Limited

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £861k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Halton
Website
www.catalyst.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre and Museum Trust Limited
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£861k£906k
  • 2024£606k£739k
  • 2023£571k£711k
Earlier years
  • 2022£530k£605k
  • 2021£614k£465k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO RAISING AWARENESS OF AND INCREASING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY AND OTHER RELATED SCIENCES AND THEIR MATERIALS PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A SCIENCE CENTRE/MUSEUM - PLACED WITHIN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE LOCALITY. THE AIM IS TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE, SPONSOR AND INAUGURATE SUCH ACTIVITIES AND FUNCTIONS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE CONSIDERED NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF ALL OR ANY ASPECTS OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

Grants received

7 grants · £1,818,029 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,470,530 (5 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £312,499
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £35,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £35,0002024-08-02
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £312,4992024-01-25
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £1,104,4302022-09-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £8,6002020-07-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £60,1002017-10-30
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.

5.4y median 3y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

13
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 15Education/training 15

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

Arts and leisure 13Manufacturing 8Business services 1

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£861k 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.3 in 2021

30 from 18 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.
53 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
518850
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/03/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/06/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 16/06/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18/07/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26/07/2011 as amended on 26 Apr 2022 as amended on 26 Apr 2022
Companies House
Company number 02115913 · Active
Contact on the register
01514201121 · info@catalyst.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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