GENOME RESEARCH LIMITED

Registered charity 1021457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1142544 · Wikipedia · also known as WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE

A) TO ADVANCE RESEARCH INTO AND INVESTIGATION OF THE HUMAN GENOME AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH B) TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE RESEARCH INTO AND INVESTIGATION OF THE HUMAN GENOME AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH B) TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £180.3 million and total expenditure of £183.5 million, resulting in a net expenditure of £2.7 million for the year. However, total net assets increased to £273.7 million, largely driven by a significant pension surplus of £108.2 million and other recognised gains. The trustees confirm that the charity is in a strong financial position with sufficient unrestricted reserves and ongoing funding support from its parent, Wellcome, to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Deloitte LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £360,000 - £369,999 (FY2024) to £290,000 to £299,999 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - premierconstructionnews.com · 02/06/2015

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Wellcome — “Since 1992, Wellcome has invested in the Sanger Institute to deliver bold, long-term discovery science at scale, by developing and deploying…” (source page)

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Cambridge Autonomous Bus System Feasibility Study —
• High-speed single molecule detection combining short DNA probes and barcoding bioinformatics for use as a new broad spectrum point-of-care diagnostic —
• Personalised iPS Cell Culture System —

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (10,375 likes)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr John-Arne Rottingenchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Relton
• Daniel Abrams
• Dr Nicole Mather
• Karen Chadwick
• Mark McCarthy
• Matthew Newcombe-Ellis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Dunn

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CANCER RESEARCH AND GENETICS UK.

• CANCER RESEARCH AND GENETICS UK income £128k
• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL GENOMIC SCIENCE income £57k
• SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS income £768k
• THE GEN FOUNDATION income £32k
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR GENETIC MEDICINE income £172k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.