QUADRAM INSTITUTE BIOSCIENCE

Registered charity 1058499 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6040316 · Wikipedia · also known as INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH, THE INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH

The world-wide advancement of education in food sciences and food related matters by undertaking research and disseminating for public benefit the useful results of such research

Objects

For the public benefit the worldwide advancement of education in food and health sciences by: (1) undertaking research and disseminating the useful results of such research; and (2) training research scientists.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £20.4m from £21.6m in the prior year, while total expenditure increased to £20.9m, resulting in a net decrease in unrestricted reserves of £0.9m. The charity maintains a strong liquidity position with £24.6m in cash and unrestricted reserves of £28.0m, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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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).

• SKAN Research Trust and Quadram Institute Bioscience to Develop Novel Microbial Therapies - ad-hoc-news.de ad-hoc-news.de · 08/07/2025
• SKAN research trust and Quadram Institute Bioscience to develop gut health therapies through gene-sequencing health.economictimes.indiatimes.com · 14/06/2024
• SKAN Research Trust and Quadram Institute Bioscience to collaborate in Gut Microbiome Research theprint.in · 22/05/2023

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £14.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (4,686 followers) · instagram (2,698 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 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 (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Celia Ann Caulcottchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Ian James Puddephat
• Dr Paul Quinlan
• Gillian Fine
• Professor John Julian Blow
• Professor Margaret Jane Dallman · trustee of 1 other charity
• TIMOTHY PETER WARREN EDWARDS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with QI PARTNERS.

• QI PARTNERS income £3.1m
• EARLHAM INSTITUTE income £14.1m
• THE INSTITUTE OF QUARRYING income £1.4m
• SCIENCE PROJECTS income £1.2m
• THE INSTITUTE OF QUARRYING BENEVOLENT FUND income £117k
• SQUARE FOOD FOUNDATION income £283k

Side by side with its peers

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