Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 8

Good reserves management: +3

No volunteer policy: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 15

PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY

PML undertakes scientifically excellent research that generates greater understanding of the marine environment, the threats it faces, and its relationship with society. PML uses this greater understanding to effect demonstrable change in the way in which the marine environment is appreciated, managed, protected and valued. PML activities are aimed at supporting a sustainable ocean for society.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial Data ?

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	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£14,000	£14,035	£-35	£1,278	£8,443	£8,443	7.2	176	26
31/03/22	£15,021	£14,557	£464	£828	£8,654	£8,654	7.1	178	0
31/03/21	£14,282	£13,559	£723	£444	£8,024	£8,024	7.1	177	0
31/03/20	£16,416	£15,728	£688	£367	£6,553	£6,553	5	163	2
31/03/19	£13,825	£13,162	£663	£402	£6,089	£6,089	5.6	153	6
31/03/18	£13,199	£13,130	£69	£299	£5,252	£5,252	4.8	152	0
31/03/17	£10,681	£10,770	£-89	£189	£5,125	£5,125	5.7	151	0
31/03/16	£9,980	£10,155	£-175	£172	£4,688	£4,688	5.5	157	0
31/03/15	£10,879	£10,849	£30	£310	£5,207	£5,207	5.8	158	0
31/03/14	£10,897	£10,690	£207	£289	£4,966	£4,966	5.6	151	0
31/03/13	£11,274	£10,762	£512	£547	£4,670	£4,670	5.2	152	0
31/03/12	£11,297	£10,992	£306	£896	£3,918	£3,918	4.3	153	0
31/03/11	£11,569	£11,162	£408	£1,147	£3,557	£3,557	3.8	153	0
31/03/10	£10,742	£10,509	£233	£1,053	£3,046	£3,046	3.5	148	0
31/03/09	£9,889	£9,618	£271	£1,058	£2,309	£2,309	2.9	139	0
31/03/08	£8,965	£8,784	£181	£620	£2,494	£2,461	3.4	127	0
31/03/07	£8,393	£8,375	£18	£392	£2,548	£2,504	3.6	115	0
31/03/06	£7,981	£7,913	£68	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£7,078	£7,014	£64	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£7,318	£6,939	£379	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 61%
Liabilities/Income: 93%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 7.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.8

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Established: 22 years

www.pml.ac.uk

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

176 employees
26 volunteers

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	£2,205,577
Wolfson Foundation	£748,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£40,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Plymouth Marine Laboratory
£0	08/06/2023	Visiting Fellowship Award over 1 year made to one fellow, Department of Earth Observation Science and Applications, under the Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship Awards. WF contributing 50% of ....more Visiting Fellowship Award over 1 year made to one fellow, Department of Earth Observation Science and Applications, under the Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship Awards. WF contributing 50% of total costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000	23/09/2022	A decision-support tool to facilitate the expansion of UK offshore renewable energy in an environmentally friendly way
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - safeGUARDing biodivErsity aNd critical ecosystem services across sectors andscales
£4,518	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10059010
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - DANUBIUS Implementation Phase Project - DANUBIUS-IP
£4,591	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10053569
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - NI: DEPICTION - DEveloPing an International CollaboraTIon to advance community-based, Open and FAIR eNvironmental modelling
£5,091	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/X003388/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Understanding controls on oxygen deficits in UK waters using a community ecosystem model and isotopic tools
£5,662	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/P010628/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Physics-to-Ecosystem Level Assessment of Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms (PELAgIO)
£54,616	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/X00886X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Processes Influencing Carbon Cycling: Observations of the Lower limb of the Antarctic Overturning (PICCOLO)
£77,008	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/P021409/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Pathways Of Dispersal for Cholera And Solution Tools (PODCAST)
£46,391	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/S012567/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Sustainable development and resilience of UK coastal communities
£37,716	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V017454/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - MARLIN STAR Community Access to Stored and Transferrable Energy from Floating Renewables
£37,736	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105915
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Atmospheric Composition and Radiative forcing changes due to UN International Ship Emissions regulations (ACRUISE)
£49,501	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/S005390/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Risks and Solutions: Marine Plastics in Southeast Asia - RaSP-SEA
£36,414	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V009362/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - REhabilitation of Vibrio Infested waters of VembanAd Lake: pollution and solution (REVIVAL)
£38,399	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/R003521/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Elucidating the consequences of picocyanobacterial lipid remodelling for global marine primary production estimates
£58,176	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V000462/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - INSITE Synthesis
£71,019	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/W009900/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Artificial Light Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems (ALICE)
£58,981	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/S003568/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Lost at Sea - where are all the tyre particles (TYRE-LOSS)
£40,656	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V001868/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - DiMethylsulfonioPropionate cycling In Terrestrial environments (DMSP InTerrest)
£15,091	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/X001075/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Simulating Plankton - getting it right in the era of Digital Twins of The Ocean
£18,920	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/X010783/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Open Network for WAter-Related Diseases (ONWARD)
£88,811	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/T003820/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Reducing the impacts of plastic waste in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
£63,623	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V005413/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Valuing Marine Biodiversity for use in Decision Making (ValMaB - DM)
£134,985	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/X002357/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Biodegradable Bioplastics - Assessing Environmental Risk (BIO- PLASTIC - RISK)
£139,926	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V007351/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Detection and Attribution of Regional greenhouse gas Emissions in the UK (DARE-UK)
£18,777	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/S004947/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Quantifying the contribution of sympagic versus pelagic diatoms to Arctic food webs and biogeochemical fluxes (SYM-PEL)
£21,740	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/S002502/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Pathways and Emissions of climate-relevant TRace gases in a changing Arctic Ocean (PETRA)
£26,220	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/R012830/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - CAMPUS (Combining Autonomous observations and Models for Predicting and Understanding Shelf seas)
£27,557	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/R006849/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Integrated upstream and downstream thinking to mitigate water security challenges from Peruvian glacier retreat
£1,864	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/S013253/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - New Copernicus capability for trophic ocean networks
£12,375	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10042851
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Decommissioning - Relative Effects of Alternative Management Strategies (DREAMS)
£204,059	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/T010843/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects
£266,574	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V016725/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Automated in situ Plankton Imaging and Classification System (APICS)
£453,582	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/X006018/1
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Plymouth Marine Laboratory
£748,000	09/12/2021	Remote, autonomous instruments supporting marine and climate science research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - MARLIN STAR Community Access to Stored and Transferrable Energy from Floating Renewables
£85,000	01/05/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105915
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Quantifying the contribution of sympagic versus pelagic diatoms to Arctic food webs and biogeochemical fluxes (SYM-PEL)
£129,395	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S002502/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Open Network for WAter-Related Diseases (ONWARD)
£151,809	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/T003820/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - NOSASSO: N-OSmolytes Across the Surface Southern Ocean: Environmental Drivers and Bioinformatics
£250,255	01/04/2018	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Multifunctionalized Microalgae (MM) - A novel and flexible platform technology for maximising feed/energy conversion ratios and treating severe infections in livestock
£186,525	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104981
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - CAMPUS (Combining Autonomous observations and Models for Predicting and Understanding Shelf seas)
£501,040	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R006849/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Is bacterial DMS consumption dependent on methylamines in marine waters?
£362,070	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R010382/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Understanding and modelling the Microbial Carbon Pump under changing nutrient concentrations and temperature
£751,873	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R011087/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Changing Arctic Carbon cycle in the cOastal Ocean Near-shore (CACOON)
£151,819	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R012814/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Pathways and Emissions of climate-relevant TRace gases in a changing Arctic Ocean (PETRA)
£314,475	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R012830/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Artificial Light Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems (ALICE)
£466,192	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S003568/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Detection and Attribution of Regional greenhouse gas Emissions in the UK (DARE-UK)
£148,418	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S004947/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Atmospheric Composition and Radiative forcing changes due to UN International Ship Emissions regulations (ACRUISE)
£391,261	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S005390/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Pathways Of Dispersal for Cholera And Solution Tools (PODCAST)
£404,617	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S012567/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Integrated upstream and downstream thinking to mitigate water security challenges from Peruvian glacier retreat
£40,901	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S013253/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - REhabilitation of Vibrio Infested waters of VembanAd Lake: pollution and solution (REVIVAL)
£152,364	01/10/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=NE/R003521/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - GCRF Building capacity for sustainable interactions with marine ecosystems for health, wellbeing, food and livelihoods of coastal communities
£1,461,975	01/10/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=NE/P021107/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Processes Influencing Carbon Cycling: Observations of the Lower limb of the Antarctic Overturning (PICCOLO)
£157,117	31/07/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=NE/P021409/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco)
£50,788	01/05/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A multidisciplinary study of DMSP production and lysis - from enzymes to organisms to process modelling.
£104,352	01/05/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - RCUK-SEA: Using Nexus Thinking to Empower Community-Based Management of Mangrove Fisheries
£24,252	14/02/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The Changing Arctic Ocean Seafloor (ChAOS) - how changing sea ice conditions impact biological communities, biogeochemical processes and ecosystems
£91,713	01/02/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - FAPESP - Satellite estimates of marine net community production in the South Atlantic from Sentinel-3.
£20,242	01/02/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Mechanistic understanding of the role of diatoms in the success of the Arctic Calanus complex and implications for a warmer Arctic
£27,387	01/02/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ShellEye-DEMO: Satellite monitoring for shellfish and finfish aquaculture: Domain expanded; Enhanced resolution; Marine insurance; Other species
£108,533	01/01/2017	[Placeholder]

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-72

DR JYOTIKA ITEE VIRMANI Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Executive Director - Science/Oceanography

DR VERONIQUE GARCON Appointed: 2022

KERIN JEAN SEQUEIRA Appointed: 2024 Occupation: Finance Director

DR BEVERLEY ANNE MACKENZIE Appointed: 2019 Occupation: Scientist

JANICE ELIZABETH TIMBERLAKE (Chair) Appointed: 2012 Occupation: Hr Director

MARK JAMES BUTCHER Appointed: 2020 Occupation: Commercial Director

NICK BUCKLAND Appointed: 2017 Occupation: Chair, University Of Plymouth, Other trusteeship: KARST,

NIGEL JOHN GODEFROY Appointed: 2015 Occupation: Company Director

DANIEL CROCKETT Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Oceans And Climate Director, Other trusteeship: SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE,

Dan is Ocean and Climate Director of Blue Marine Foundation. Based in London, Blue Marine supports marine protected areas, fights unsustainable fishing and restores marine habitats. Dan leads a specialist unit focused on building the value of the ocean as a solution to climate change. In this capacity he supports various ocean climate science,....more

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/03/2002, number: 1091222
Registered at Companies House on 13/03/2001, number: 04178503

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY
PROSPECT PLACE
PLYMOUTH
PL1 3DH

Objectives

TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING MARINE AND ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND DISSEMINATE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND DATA AND IDEAS GENERATED IN THE COURSE OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUCH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

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NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE.

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