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The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is a registered charity (number 800579) based in Cambridge, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Dr Nigel Aaron Pitchford since 2020. Latest income £9.9m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £9.9m (2024)
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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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£9.9m£11m
  • 2023£9.7m£7.8m
  • 2022£8.4m£6.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£7.8m£11m
  • 2020£7.2m£6.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE GENERAL ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE SCIENCE OF CHEMISTRY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Grants received

4 grants · £99,951 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 Science, Innovation and Technology · £62,976 (3 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £36,975

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £13,6292024-02-15
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £45,3042023-12-18
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £36,9752022-04-01
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £4,0432020-04-26
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.

4.7y median 5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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 7Tech 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£9.9m latest income
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.

7.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.0 in 2020

109 from 77 in 2020
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
800579
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18TH AUGUST 1987 AS AMENDED ON 7 DECEMBER 1999 AND 28 JUNE 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 18 MAY 2010 as amended on 05 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 02155347 · Active
Contact on the register
01223336408 · admin@ccdc.cam.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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