NORTH WALES SCIENCE

Registered charity 1102959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TECHNIQUEST@NEWI, Xplore! Science Discovery Centre

North Wales Science operates a science discovery centre.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING, TO ALL THAT MAY BENEFIT, OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO DO SO BY MAINTAINING AND CARRYING ON AN EXHIBITION TO EXPLORE VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS AND TO ENCOURAGE AN AWARENESS AMONGST THE PUBLIC OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY. 2. TO PROMOTE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE DELIVERY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES, SCIENCE FESTIVALS AND OTHER SUCH ACTIVITIES AS THE COMPANY MAY DEEM NECESSARY.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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Registered contact address: Wrexham, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £3,164,939, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of approximately £193,000. However, the charity relies on its parent company, Wrexham University, for financial support to meet liabilities as they fall due, with the trustees acknowledging that there can be no certainty this support will continue.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £480k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~33.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (50% 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: 7.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Howard Jeremy Jones
• Leah Maltby
• Nigel Jones
• Nigel Williams
• Professor Anne Louise Nortcliffe

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH EAST STEM FOUNDATION.

• NORTH EAST STEM FOUNDATION income £94k
• NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WALES income £2.5m
• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (USA) FOUNDATION LIMITED income £399k
• NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST income £4.0m
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES income £19.2m
• WEB SCIENCE TRUST income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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