Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research T/A The Griffin Institute

Registered charity 1129348 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHWICK PARK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH LIMITED

NPIMR T/A The Griffin Institute trains the next generation of NHS surgeons and provides a hub for conducting pioneering research by: * providing bespoke training to UK surgeons in robotic surgery and other advanced minimally invasive surgical (MIS) techniques * Supporting translational and innovative research to enhance patient health * Delivering high-quality and novel preclinical studies.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £548,115 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in negative unrestricted free reserves of £2,638,474. The trustees acknowledge a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing dependence on creditor support and lease negotiations. However, the trustees remain satisfied that sufficient cash flow exists to meet obligations as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Vasiliki Kiparoglou — Chief Executive (source)
• Richard Atienza-Hawkes — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Professor Nader Francis — Director of Training (source)
• Professor Jia Hua — Director of Science (source)
• Simon Ainley — Finance Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (66% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Atienza-Hawkeschair
• Annemari Merilainen-Ottridge
• Dr Deborah Spencer
• Hugo Edward William Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Brent · Harrow

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE MEDICAL INSTITUTE LIMITED.

• THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE MEDICAL INSTITUTE LIMITED income £474k
• NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE TRUST income £151k
• TRUSTEES OF THE LONDON CLINIC LIMITED income £188.1m
• INTENSIVE CARE NATIONAL AUDIT AND RESEARCH CENTRE income £5.2m
• Bowel Research UK income £1.6m
• EDWARD PENLEY ABRAHAM RESEARCH FUND income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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