Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 6
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

To disseminate knowledge, of the seas and marine life, including the use of marine and other organisms for basic biosciences for the benefit of the public (where biosciences means marine biology in its widest sense).
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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:

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

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £16,422,421 available, equivalent to 29 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • 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
31/03/23£8,932£6,844£2,088£32£22,668£16,42228.89829
31/03/22£5,085£6,016£-931£29£21,219£16,40332.79626
31/03/21£5,198£5,630£-431£17£21,131£16,08134.3878
31/03/20£7,390£6,014£1,377£92£19,714£14,35428.68160
31/03/19£8,333£5,928£2,405£135£18,910£15,24430.97250
31/03/18£3,961£4,021£-61£125£15,946£14,57943.5500
31/03/17£3,332£3,951£-619£129£16,149£15,06445.8560
31/03/16£3,207£3,854£-646£201£14,504£13,41941.8560
31/03/15*£19,389£4,310£15,079£355£16,150£15,12342.1620

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 31%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 72%
Reserves/Spending: 28.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 11 years
(54 years as a company)

www.mba.ac.uk

info@mba.ac.uk

01752 426493

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Land or water management
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Devon, Plymouth City,
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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£400,000 23/09/2022
Building Refurbishment - Phase 1
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Marine Biological Association
£1,350,000 11/06/2020
Marine Microbiome Centre of Excellence
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - MICRO-INTERACT - Laser capture micro-dissection for identification of novel interactions within the plankton that underpin marine carbon cycling
£293,130 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/T009195/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Assessing how cell size constrains carbon uptake in diatoms using direct measurements of cell surface carbonate chemistry
£556,443 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/T000848/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Exploring new placed based technological opportunities for community science with the Marine Biological Association and Time and Tide Bell
£19,788 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T019328/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Light sheet microscopy for live cell imaging of photosensitive systems
£423,316 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S019758/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Understanding the links between pelagic microbial ecosystems and organic matter cycling in the changing Arctic (Micro-ARC)
£223,602 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R012644/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Diatom Sensory Mechanisms: Drivers of Global Marine Productivity
£449,739 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/R015449/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Tracking Marine sources of a Cholera outbreak using high throughput molecular methods on archival samples
£42,396 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S013431/1
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
£23,100 14/03/2018
Beach Rangers - reconnecting local communities with the sea
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
£10,000 06/12/2017
Life on the Yealm: Recording the natural heritage of the Yealm Estuary
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
£3,583 29/11/2017
Help us run organised summer activities aimed at local families to engage with and learn about their local marine environment.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - BLUEPRINT - New designs for engaging the public in the future of our seas
£84,187 16/10/2017
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=NE/R01180X/1
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • DR GILLIAN RIDER (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Dircetor
  • DR JENNIFER SARAH ASHWORTH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Doctor - Marine Management
  • HEATHER KOLDEWEY Appointed: 2020
  • MARK DICKEY-COLLAS Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR CAROL ROBINSON Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR JUDITH PETTS Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR MARK BAILEY Appointed: 2021
  • PROFESSOR PAUL HART Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR ROSALIND RICKABY Appointed: 2020
  • PROFESSOR STUART ROGERS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Professor - Marine Evidence
  • ROBERT JOHN MILLS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
  • RICHARD COOMBS Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/02/2014, number: 1155893
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/01/1970, number: RC000865
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR15: 3 days late,
Main office

The Marine Biological Association o
The Laboratory
Citadel Hill
PLYMOUTH
PL1 2PB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS HEREBY CONSTITUTED ARE TO PROMOTE THE INVESTIGATION, AND TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE, OF THE SEAS AND MARINE LIFE, INCLUDING THE USE OF MARINE AND OTHER ORGANISMS FOR BASIC BIOSCIENCES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (WHERE BIOSCIENCES MEANS MARINE BIOLOGY IN ITS WIDEST SENSE).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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