Finance Score: 4

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 3

Good reserves management: +3
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 11

ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH LIMITED

Scientific research, training and communication to advance knowledge that will enhance the management of cultivated land, nationally and internationally, for environmental and societal benefit

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

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

Established: 35 years

www.rothamsted.ac.uk

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Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/03/23		£39,994	£33,698	£6,296	£8	£79,460	£13,647	4.9	356
31/03/22		£36,278	£32,352	£3,926	£11	£72,710	£14,977	5.6	357
31/03/21	*	£35,468	£31,141	£4,327	£116	£68,766	£18,666	7.2	340
31/03/20		£32,445	£33,101	£-656	£58	£64,237	£17,636	6.4	333
31/03/19		£32,561	£37,132	£-4,571	£111	£64,893	£21,624	7	395
31/03/18		£36,389	£37,289	£-900	£238	£69,464	£24,312	7.8	410
31/03/17		£34,121	£32,865	£1,256	£213	£70,364	£25,896	9.5	410
31/03/16		£32,892	£36,196	£-3,304	£0	£69,448	£24,744	8.2	416
31/03/15		£42,603	£37,608	£4,995	£154	£72,870	£25,146	8	425
31/03/14		£37,644	£34,043	£3,601	£138	£67,875	£25,902	9.1	363
31/03/13		£42,769	£35,427	£7,342	£198	£64,274	£19,602	6.6	349
31/03/12		£36,350	£34,866	£1,484	£217	£56,932	£7,850	2.7	430
31/03/11		£37,782	£33,010	£4,772	£152	£55,448	£5,122	1.9	465
31/03/10		£41,432	£36,422	£5,010	£187	£50,676	£3,358	1.1	477
31/03/09		£30,154	£30,019	£135	£141	£45,666	£6,154	2.5	416
31/03/08		£28,103	£27,952	£151	£151	£45,531	£6,070	2.6	453
31/03/07		£29,685	£28,212	£1,473	£170	£42,443	£6,631	2.8	464
31/03/06		£29,380	£29,967	£-587	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05		£27,288	£26,618	£670	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04	*	£29,250	£26,711	£2,538	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 17%
Reserves/Spending: 4.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8

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Listed activities

Education/Training

How it operates

Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Central Bedfordshire, Devon, Hertfordshire, Suffolk,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

356 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
Thirty Percy Foundation - Grant to Rothamsted Research
£22,500	23/01/2020	Top Up Funding to support Rothamsted in a larger funding bid to develop training materials for agricultural scientists in the Southern Africa Development Community that encourages the proper ....more Top Up Funding to support Rothamsted in a larger funding bid to develop training materials for agricultural scientists in the Southern Africa Development Community that encourages the proper management and archiving of data in a way and facilitates the sharing of data between experiments, which are currently parochial and fragmented.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Improving wheat grain quality by exploiting novel sources of genetic variation
£30,489	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S020101/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Dynamic coupling of soil structure and gas fluxes measured with distributed sensor systems: implications for carbon modeling
£757,235	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/T010487/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - BBSRC NPIF Innovation Fellows Rothamstead Research
£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/T508093/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Crop management strategies for low asparagine grains to limit acrylamide-forming potential
£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/T50838X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - aiScope - AI data platform for smart crop protection
£214,808	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105145
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - SpraySaver - Full Automated Broad-spectrum crop Pathogen Spore Detection using DNA and LFD
£184,871	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105148
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Addressing malnutrition with biofortified maize in Zimbabwe: from crop management to policy and consumers
£839,023	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T009047/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - What determines protein abundance in plants?
£3,354,456	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T002182/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Novel real-time disease surveillance and fungicide resistance monitoring tools to foster a smart and sustainable crop protection platform in Brazil
£369,549	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S018867/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - New varieties of direct seeded rice for farmers in Lower Middle Income Countries
£602,712	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/T015551/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - India Partnering Award: ICRISAT-Rothamsted Partnership for Enabling Gene Editing in Pulses
£24,493	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S020748/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Novel Omega-3 Sources in Feeds and Impacts on Salmon Health
£240,068	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S006400/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - SAFERGUARDING SONORA'S WHEAT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
£516,645	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S012885/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A FAIR community resource for pathogens, hosts and their interactions to enhance global food security and human health
£557,821	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S020020/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Development of Aerial Risk Inspection,Evaluation & Surveying (ARIES) platform for Cocoa Plantations
£137,856	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105655
Thirty Percy Foundation - Grant to Rothamsted Research
£225,000	01/12/2018	Setting up a network of long-term experimental community leaders on sustainable agriculture, exposing researchers, students and investors to new innovations in agricultural science, technology and ....more Setting up a network of long-term experimental community leaders on sustainable agriculture, exposing researchers, students and investors to new innovations in agricultural science, technology and policy.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Feasibility of using 3D MultiSpectral Imaging for enhanced classification of fruit ripeness and disease
£27,393	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104571
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
£319,772	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 - The use of GPS tracking and the LoRaWAN network to improve productivity of grazing dairy cows
£32,092	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105150
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Spraying for Yield
£367,885	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R019606/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - An integrated genomics/genetics approach for development of mungbean varieties with improved disease resistance
£405,596	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R019827/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Novel Semiochemical-Based Management of Fall Armyworm (FAW) in Brazil using Companion Crops
£46,176	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R020000/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - GLTEN Africa: Cropping system diversity, a cornerstone of sustainable intensification.
£746,204	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R020663/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Catalysing collaborations between wheat scientists in the UK and Central Asia
£10,081	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R020981/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Understanding evolution of fungicide resistance in wheat blast field populations in Brazil; can we learn lessons for future disease management?
£64,377	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R022747/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Developing a New Tool for Phenotyping Tick Resistance in Cattle
£100,809	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S004882/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Remote detection of cereal aphid infestation and virus transmission in wheat
£12,120	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S011196/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - IWYP Call 2: Transforming yield through source-sink synchronisation
£966,049	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S01280X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - BBSRC AgRIA IAA Rothamsted Research
£300,000	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S506801/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - MIDST-CZ: Maximising Impact by Decision Support Tools for sustainable soil and water through UK-China Critical Zone science
£157,333	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S009094/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - CROP-NET: Monitoring and predicting the effects of climate change on crop yields
£50,407	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S016821/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - New Science to Enable the Design of Agricultural Landscapes that Deliver Multiple Functions - AgLand
£897,623	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/T001178/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The evolutionary dynamics of multiazole resistance in pathogenic Aspergillus fungi
£64,519	01/04/2018	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Rothamsted Research UKRI Innovation Fellowships: BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Accounts
£128,000	01/11/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/R506503/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Applications of Foxtail mosaic virus (FoMV) vector for protein overexpression and gene silencing in cereals and other commercial crops
£11,282	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/R012393/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - CROPNUT: increasing iron in cereals
£27,921	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/P019358/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Epidemiological Modelling of Simultaneous Control of Multiple Cassava Virus Diseases
£152,633	01/05/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - GeoNutrition - tackling hidden hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa
£250,320	01/05/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Genetic improvement of rice seed vigour for dry direct-seeded conditions
£260,222	01/05/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Kenyak yeye: UK-Australian Global Soil Meta-omic Programme
£15,263	03/04/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A Bayesian Belief network to operationalize the concepts of Soil Quality and Health
£126,494	01/04/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - China: A Virtual Centre for Monitoring the Rhizosphere
£15,244	01/04/2017	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Validating the commercial potential of genetically modified plant oils in aquaculture via full life-cycle replacement of marine feed ingredients
£233,761	01/01/2017	[Placeholder]
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Rothamsted Research
£55,100	14/09/2010 12	Towards Project costs Towards the costs to produce an update on the 'State of Britain's Larger Moths' report.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 55-72

DR ANDREW PAUL BALMFORD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Zoologist, Other trusteeship: WORLD LAND TRUST,

DR OLIVER DOUBLEDAY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Farmer

JOHANNES VINCENTIUS MARIA HOLTHUIS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Lawyer

NEIL GRANT SCRAGG Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

PROFESSOR BRIDGET ANNE EMMETT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Ecologist, Other trusteeships: THE BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST,

PROFESSOR JULIE ELIZABETH GRAY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: University Professor

PROFESSOR LOUISE JOAN MANNING Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Professor

PROFESSOR SANDRA MARY THOMAS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

SIR JOHN BEDDINGTON FRS Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/09/1989, number: 802038
Registered at Companies House on 07/06/1989, number: 02393175

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20 returns made; AR21: 2 days late, AR04: 38 days late,

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Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE BY THE INITIATION, PROSECUTION, DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUANCE OF INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS RELATED THERETO AND INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:1. THE CHEMISTRY PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY OF SOILS ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO THE RESPONSES OF CROPS TO MINERAL NUTRIENTS WATER SOIL COMPACTION DRAINAGE TILLAGE PRACTICES AND MICROBIAL PROCESSES.2. THE BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF PLANTS AND ARABLE CROPS.3. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF PLANTS AND ARABLE CROPS TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND AGRONOMIC FACTORS AND THE PHYSICS OF CROP MICROCLIMATE.4. THE BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOUR AND DISPERSAL OF PLANTS, ANIMALS, FUNGI, BACTERIA AND VIRUSES.5. PROCESSES COMPOUNDS AND ORGANISMS CAPABLE OF MONITORING PREDICTING AND CONTROLLING PESTS AND DISEASES OF CROPS.6. BIOMATHEMATICS INCLUDING STATISTICAL AND COMPUTING SERVICES.7. THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AND OPERATIONS ON THE NATURAL AND SEMI-NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND MEANS OF MINIMISING OR ELIMINATING DAMAGING OR UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS PRODUCED BY SUCH PRACTICES AND OPERATIONS.8 THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOIL, MICROBES, PLANTS, ANIMALS, WATER AND THE ATMOSPHERE WITHIN GRASSLAND-DOMINATED AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN ORDER TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE, MULTIFUNCTIONAL LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS THAT ARE ADAPTABLE TO DIFFERENT PRODUCTION AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS; THAT HELP PROTECT OUR NATURAL RESOURCES; THAT HELP MITIGATE AGAINST, AND ADAPT TO, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THAT TAKE ACCOUNT OF CHANGING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLICY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS.

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