Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 2

Poor Liquidity: -1
Multiple Deficits: -2

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 1

GENOME RESEARCH LIMITED

A) TO ADVANCE RESEARCH INTO AND INVESTIGATION OF THE HUMAN GENOME AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH B) TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 31 years

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
30/09/23	£189,031	£184,045	£4,986	£0	£271,559	£36,636	2.4	1,271
30/09/22	£185,940	£183,161	£2,779	£0	£196,493	£31,622	2.1	1,187
30/09/21	£221,458	£207,875	£13,583	£0	£43,131	£18,272	1.1	1,178
30/09/20	£156,394	£171,877	£-15,483	£0	£-37,819	£9,608	0.7	1,055
30/09/19	£152,373	£164,274	£-11,901	£0	£-38,636	£6,818	0.5	1,022
30/09/18	£144,812	£147,266	£-2,454	£0	£55,555	£48,857	4	1,070
30/09/17	£135,336	£143,940	£-8,604	£0	£30,172	£-135,000	-11.3	1,075
30/09/16	£124,141	£131,166	£-7,025	£0	£-42,457	£-203,000	-18.6	1,015
30/09/15	£156,412	£126,617	£29,795	£124	£44,388	£0	n/a	986
30/09/14	£119,484	£114,555	£4,929	£107	£32,224	£0	n/a	956
30/09/13	£113,933	£115,448	£-1,515	£111	£51,195	£0	n/a	902
30/09/12	£101,492	£107,624	£-6,132	£81	£64,650	£0	n/a	852
30/09/11	£100,772	£104,077	£-3,305	£80	£69,382	£0	n/a	839
30/09/10	£93,920	£97,126	£-3,206	£87	£64,687	£0	n/a	838
30/09/09	£96,221	£101,828	£-5,607	£98	£70,393	£0	n/a	822
30/09/08	£90,797	£93,455	£-2,658	£42	£87,000	£0	n/a	801
30/09/07	£83,893	£79,592	£4,301	£48	£98,858	£0	n/a	797
30/09/06	£88,341	£80,801	£7,540	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/09/05	£82,360	£73,838	£8,522	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/09/04	£77,192	£69,287	£7,905	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £350,000-£400,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 40%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 13%
Reserves/Spending: 2.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 0.3

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

1,271 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Prevention and Restriction of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pneumococci by Multi-Level Modelling
£130,292	12/09/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/R003076/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Predicting cell-cell horizontal transmission of antibiotics resistance from genome and phenome
£82,595	01/09/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/R004501/1
Nesta - AC00691
£25,000	21/08/2017 0	Discovery Awards 2017 programme grant to EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute Grant Ref AC00691
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Wormbase ParaSite
£58,974	18/07/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/P024610/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The identification of genetic vulnerabilities in head and neck cancers for the development of novel therapies.
£200,015	01/01/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Next Generation sequencing of barcoded plasmodium falciparum mutants to dissect parasite fitness costs associated with drug resistance
£24,174	03/10/2016	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Deciphering the effects of genetic variability in regulatory T cells - links with autoimmunity
£86,624	01/04/2016	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/N014995/1

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 49-68

DAME CILLA SNOWBALL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Non Executive Director

DANIEL ABRAMS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Non-Executive Director

DR NICOLE MATHER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Management Consultant

DR PAUL SCHREIER (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/05/1993, number: 1021457
Registered at Companies House on 20/08/1992, number: 02742969

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

THE SANGER CENTRE
WELLCOME TRUST GENOME CAMPUS
HINXTON
SAFFRON WALDEN
CB10 1SA

Objectives

A) TO ADVANCE RESEARCH INTO AND INVESTIGATION OF THE HUMAN GENOME AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH B) TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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