Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs high: -4

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 7

THE BABRAHAM INSTITUTE

The Babraham Institute undertakes world-leading innovative research into the molecular mechanisms that underlie normal cellular processes and functions throughout development and the ageing process. Much of the Institute's research involves collaborations with other research institutions and organisations worldwide. The Institute also offers first class PhD and postdoctoral training programmes.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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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
31/03/23		£41,164	£46,415	£-5,251	£10,953	£156,274	£20,878	5.4	367
31/03/22		£40,547	£41,850	£-1,303	£9,120	£151,992	£21,274	6.1	369
31/03/21		£37,113	£35,137	£1,976	£4,747	£146,048	£22,924	7.8	374
31/03/20		£37,256	£40,400	£-3,144	£7,691	£173,088	£36,611	10.9	366
31/03/19		£32,909	£38,252	£-5,343	£7,150	£170,026	£36,123	11.3	350
31/03/18		£42,501	£55,760	£-13,259	£2,811	£164,735	£22,261	4.8	352
31/03/17		£40,901	£39,864	£1,037	£0	£178,643	£26,050	7.8	369
31/03/16		£38,001	£38,263	£-262	£5,634	£163,163	£21,282	6.7	402
31/03/15		£44,213	£38,446	£5,767	£227	£147,123	£23,819	7.4	394
31/03/14	*	£44,450	£34,700	£9,750	£271	£103,017	£26,859	9.3	359
31/03/13		£40,290	£30,710	£9,580	£240	£86,505	£16,053	6.3	318
31/03/12	*	£37,086	£34,775	£2,311	£258	£88,609	£12,244	4.2	335
31/03/11	*	£29,818	£30,813	£-995	£189	£71,493	£2,715	1.1	326
31/03/10		£35,800	£30,964	£4,836	£187	£61,218	£818	0.3	382
31/03/09		£42,414	£29,372	£13,042	£204	£59,399	£-1,520	-0.6	377
31/03/08		£30,725	£24,505	£6,220	£179	£60,526	£7,134	3.5	356
31/03/07		£26,439	£25,109	£1,330	£163	£52,552	£4,979	2.4	295
31/03/06		£20,207	£21,681	£-1,474	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05	*	£17,838	£19,510	£-1,672	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04		£18,173	£16,795	£1,378	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 42.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 23.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 32%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 13%
Reserves/Spending: 5.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.7

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Established: 28 years

www.babraham.ac.uk

comms@babraham.ac.uk

01223496207

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Scientific research and testing services

How it operates

Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

367 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 - Impaired selection of germinal centre B cells in ageing diminishes the quality of antibody mediated immunity upon vaccination
£111,304	01/10/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/W001578/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Does inappropriate DNA replication provide a mechanism for acquisition of drug resistance
£20,786	01/10/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/W509917/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Functional Regulatory Variation in Stimulus Responsive Myeloid Cell Lineage Enhancers
£20,786	01/10/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/W510087/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Generation of an In Vivo Senescent Cell Atlas: Across the life-course and in pathology
£123,228	01/09/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/T013540/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Defining the gene regulatory mechanisms controlling the entry of human cells into naïve pluripotency
£139,426	01/07/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/T011769/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Epigenetic regulation of lineage competence in human pluripotent stem cells
£167,824	01/06/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/V02969X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - BBSRC NPIF Innovation Fellows Babraham Institute
£25,000	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T50807X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Molecular regulation of NK cell functional maturation by the transcription factor BACH2
£535,467	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S024468/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Molecular species variants of phospholipids: a code through which cells distinguish phosphoinositide signals and their synthetic intermediates
£449,965	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T002530/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Unbiased determination of BRAF variants modulating BRAF - CRAF dimerisation and MAPK signalling
£100,279	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T50855X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Higher-order chromatin structure and regulatory sequence variation in human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) self-renewal and differentiation
£380,638	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T016787/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Cytek Aurora Spectral Analyser: essential investment to expand the Babraham Institute Flow Cytometry capabilities, enabling pioneering bioscience
£329,375	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S019189/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Investigating the targets and biological roles of the deubiquitylase USP43
£348,247	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S017062/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Dppa2/4 regulate the epigenome during gastrulation
£304,702	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T009713/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Immunity in health and ageing: dissecting the role of the 'non-canonical autophagy' pathway
£364,902	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R019258/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - US Partnering Award: Cellular heterogeneity, signalling and decision-making in human pluripotent stem cells
£48,164	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R021341/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - JPND - Intraneuronal transport-related pathways across neurodegenerative diseases
£256,950	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/R024782/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Epigenome patterning in oocytes and its legacies in the embryo
£1,964,775	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S000437/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - PTBP proteins in T cell activation: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action
£250,587	01/10/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/P01898X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - 16ALERT: BD FACS-Aria Fusion - strengthening the cell sorting capabilities of Babraham Institute Flow Core to enrich world-class science
£449,451	15/08/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/R00076X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - DYRK protein kinases regulate p62/SQSTM1 to orchestrate cellular responses to oxidative stress, protein misfolding and nutrient starvation
£163,514	18/04/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Mechanisms of regulatory T Treg cell stability in health and disease
£24,174	01/10/2016	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - MultiMod, flexible management for multi-scale multi-approach models in biology
£92,226	01/07/2016	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/N019474/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Defining the role of ERK5 kinase and ERK5 transcriptional activities in cell migration and EMT using novel ERK5 inhibitors
£113,958	01/07/2016	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/N015886/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Orchestration of PI3K-dependent transcriptional programmes by the transcription factor BACH2
£162,495	01/04/2016	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/N007794/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Role of chromatin dynamics in regulation of intestinal innate immunity gene expression
£137,275	01/03/2016	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/N009398/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Age-associated defects in lymph node stromal cell function and the consequences for immunisation
£101,494	29/02/2016	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/N011740/1

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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

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Age Range of Trustees:

ALEXANDRA ZOE PYGALL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor

DR JAMES MICHAEL BRISCOE FRS Appointed: 2021

DR JOHN WELLS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

JOHN MACEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hr Director

PROFESSOR GORDON BROWN FRS Appointed: 2021

PROFESSOR HELEN WALDEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Research Scientist

PROFESSOR PAUL LEHNER FRS Appointed: 2023

PROFESSOR PETRA HAJKOVA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Research Scientist

TIMOTHY LIVETT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Non Exec Director

GRAHAM PETER ALLEN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Vice President

PROFESSOR LINDA PARTRIDGE FRS Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON FOR IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE (COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ROYAL SOCIETY),

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/03/1996, number: 1053902
Registered at Companies House on 19/01/1995, number: 03011737

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

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Filing Record

20 returns made; AR14: 0 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late,

Main office

THE BABRAHAM INSTITUTE
BABRAHAM HALL
BABRAHAM
CAMBRIDGE
CB22 3AT

Objectives

THE WORLD-WIDE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

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