Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

BANGOR UNIVERSITY

TEACHING, RESEARCH AND THE PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 19 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/07/23£177,704£171,985£5,719£0£210,096£201,177141,7030
31/07/22£163,249£200,296£-37,047£0£212,423£203,46712.21,641205
31/07/21£153,368£154,917£-1,549£0£234,800£225,76217.51,59246
31/07/20£147,696£136,620£11,076£0£226,430£218,71319.21,644209
31/07/19£146,380£166,448£-20,068£0£219,151£211,46815.21,667199
31/07/18£164,877£145,353£19,524£0£237,731£229,958191,6850
31/07/17£143,380£152,144£-8,764£0£210,879£203,64516.11,8120
31/07/16£143,442£153,864£-10,422£0£213,887£206,84616.11,8120
31/07/15£142,671£141,430£1,241£66£127,224£49,3154.21,8300
31/07/14£138,930£139,466£-536£64£121,082£47,8794.11,8470
31/07/13*£135,361£137,813£-2,452£63£115,313£51,5794.51,7900
31/07/12£131,488£133,614£-2,126£64£118,104£59,6765.41,7370

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 22%
Highest pay band: £200,000-£250,000
Liabilities/Assets: 48%
Liabilities/Income: 103%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 14 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 14 years

http://www.bangor.ac.uk

gwenan.hine@bangor.ac.uk

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Colleges and universities
How it operates
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • China, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle Of Anglesey, Wrexham,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Nuffield Foundation - Grant to Bangor University
£360,482 08/06/2022
Towards Remote Instruction of Language and Literacy (RILL): A randomised control trial
Nuffield Foundation - Grant to Bangor University
£198,377 07/04/2022
24
Towards Social Welfare Law Advice, Community Connectedness, Equality and Well-being
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - GENEGUT: Oral delivery of encapsulated RNA nanotherapeutics for targeted treatment of ileal Crohn's disease
£1,957 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10042451
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Two Layer Coatings for compostable repulpable paper
£14,597 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10022807
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - COtooCLEAN food grade recycled polyolefins
£18,977 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10016345
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - HiBarFilm2 - High barrier monomaterial flexible films for food contact applications
£22,244 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10015317
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Mobilising novel finance models for health promotion and disease prevention
£7,858 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10065737
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Improving sEed QUality In the Post-plant protection Product Era (EQUIPPE)
£21,902 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10004596
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - PlantSea-Pack
£24,440 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10006804
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The ForestWard Observatory to Secure Resilience of European Forests
£939 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10059993
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - PlantSea-Punnet: a versatile seaweed-based packaging
£12,868 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10043508
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ODA Adjustment Funding-Bangor University
£150,000 01/04/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/X525388/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - UKRI COVID19 Doctoral Funding Bangor University
£19,328 01/04/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/W502510/1
National Lottery Community Fund - Yn Y Foment
£99,361 19/09/2019
36
Yn Y Foment
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Milankovitch and Tidal Cycle History (MATCH)
£592,642 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S009566/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - STOVERPACK- Creating a new value proposition for waste maize stover in Uganda
£124,715 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105318
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Bangor University and Sundeala Limited
£190,344 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=511660
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life
£404,496 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ES/T00696X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - EnsemblES - Using ensemble techniques to capture the accuracy and sensitivity of ecosystem service models
£47,862 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/T00391X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - 19-ERACoBioTech SYNBIOGAS: Synthetic landfill microbiomes for enhanced anaerobic digestion to biogas
£462,144 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T011076/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Endocrine scaffolds and peptide networks: How is the molt cycle and ecdysis programme controlled in crustaceans?
£590,989 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T005912/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - NitroGelCap
£59,662 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105627
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 24-009 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main
£99,118 01/04/2019
Main Award
Nuffield Foundation - Justice grant
£113,333 06/09/2018
Paths to Administrative Justice in Wales: Principles, Challenges and Opportunities
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant SEFLOS contribution
£2,800 06/08/2018
Peatland management and restoration is a key policy focus for Defra and will feature in the 25 year Environment Plan and in the forthcoming Emissions Reduction Plan, thereby contributing to meeting the UK's climate change targets. This small ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant: Darwin Scoping Projects DARSC188 Developing community capacity for sustainable marine aquaculture in Vanuatu
£5,750 01/07/2018
The objective of the scoping trip is to engage with a range of stakeholders around Vanuatu, particularly residents and representatives from villages which are heavily involved in ornamental aquaculture to: 1) Rapidly assess the constraints within ....more
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Ultra-Stable High-Performance Nanolasers
£389,956 01/04/2018
To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Graphene Compostable Barrier Packaging (GraCoPack)
£55,991 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104494
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Spatial Audio in Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies
£15,132 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=AH/T001267/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - UK-China Agritech Challenge Zero-Waste Agricultural Mulch Films for Crops in China (ZEWAMFI)
£398,751 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S020861/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Improving Methods of Characterising Resource, Interactions and Conditions (METRIC)
£287,382 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/R034664/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Light Actuated Microrobots
£630,326 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S001425/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - MobilES - Using mobile-phone technology to capture ecosystem service information
£218,798 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ES/R009279/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Emotional AI: Comparative Considerations for UK and Japan across Commercial, Political and Security Sectors
£50,288 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ES/S013008/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Development and evaluation of an integrated early childhood development and violence prevention teacher-training intervention in Jamaican preschools
£180,852 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/R018421/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Primary productivity driven by escalating nutrient fluxes?
£215,769 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R01275X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Breaking the Barriers to Soil Testing on Pastures (Breaking-STEP)
£229,099 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R017425/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Can phenotypic plasticity and DNA methylation promote adaptive radiation?
£53,179 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S002081/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Artificial Light Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems (ALICE)
£648,227 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S003533/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Microbial hitch-hikers of marine plastics: the survival, persistence & ecology of microbial communities in the Plastisphere
£489,170 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S004548/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Forecasting biodiversity losses in Wallacea from ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes.
£297,300 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S006893/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Safe Biodegradable Packaging (SafeBioPack)
£667,317 01/04/2018
To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Real-time in situ sensing of soil nitrogen status to promote enhanced nitrogen use efficiency in agricultural systems
£316,602 01/04/2018
To support high quality research
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Prifysgol Bangor University
£10,000 27/10/2017
From Curig to Castle – Exploring the Communities of the Ogwen Valley
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Sustainable futures for the Costa Rica dairy sector: optimising environmental and economic outcomes
£220,032 01/05/2017
To support high quality research
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 24-009 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main
£102,711 01/04/2017
Main Award
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How is it governed?

Trustees (19)
Current Trustees appointed

  • DR ALED LLION JONES Appointed: 2023
  • DR AMA EYO Appointed: 2023
  • DR IAN JAMES REES Appointed: 2019
  • DR JOHN THOMAS PRABHAKAR Appointed: 2024
  • ELIN WYN Appointed: 2022
  • EMILY REES Appointed: 2023
  • ERIC DOUGLAS HEPBURN Appointed: 2020
  • GWION ROWLANDS Appointed: 2024
  • JULIE ANNE PERKINS Appointed: 2016
  • MARIAN WYN JONES (Chair) Appointed: 2018
  • NIDA AMBREEN Appointed: 2024
  • PROF OLIVER TURNBULL Appointed: 2012
  • PROFESSOR DAVID VINER Appointed: 2023
  • PROFESSOR EDMUND BURKE Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR JEAN WHITE Appointed: 2021
  • PROFESSOR RHIANNON TUDOR EDWARDS Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR TIMOTHY WHEELER Appointed: 2022
  • RHEON TOMOS Appointed: 2023
  • SIR PAUL LAMBERT Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/04/2011, number: 1141565
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR13: 380 days late,
Main office

Bangor University
College Road
BANGOR
LL57 2DG

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF BANGOR UNIVERSITY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE AND DISSEMINATE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE BY TEACHING AND RESEARCH AND, BY ITS CORPORATE LIFE AS WELL AS ITS ACADEMIC WORK, TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO OBTAIN THE FULL ADVANTAGES OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GWYNEDD, ISLE OF ANGLESEY, WREXHAM, FLINTSHIRE AND THE CITY OF LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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