THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED

Registered charity 1140062 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q326044 · Wikipedia · also known as THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE, UKCMRI, UKCMRI (UNITED KINGDOM CENTRE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION), UKCMRI LIMITED

The Francis Crick Institute is dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Our work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections and neurodegenerative diseases.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROMOTION AND CARRYING OUT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OF ALL ASPECTS OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE IN PARTICULAR THE FOLLOWING:1 ESTABLISHING, OPERATING AND MANAGING A CENTRE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION;2 ENGAGING IN, ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING:2.1 RESEARCH INTO ANY OF THE BIOSCIENCES; 2.2 THE DISCOVERY, INVENTION, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF PREVENTIONS, TREATMENTS, CURES, DIAGNOSTICS AND OTHER MEDICAL AGENTS, METHODS AND PROCESSES THAT MAY IN ANY WAY PREVENT OR RELIEVE ILLNESS, DISEASE, DISABILITY OR DISORDERS OF WHATEVER NATURE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL FORMS OF CANCER); AND 3 DEVELOPING AND TRAINING SCIENTISTS AND SUPPORTING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £8.6m for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a £17.2m increase in expenditure that outpaced a £15.0m rise in income. Despite this operational loss, the charity maintains total reserves of £66.3m, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of £35m, providing a buffer against inflationary pressures. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06885462
• Trading subsidiary: FRANCIS CRICK TRADING LIMITED Companies House 10792548

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Francis Crick Institute (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GEORGE, Peter Lutz — director, appointed 03/08/2026on trustee list
• MCKERNAN, Ruth Mitchell, Dr — director, appointed 20/07/2026on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Michelle Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/03/2025on trustee list
• LORD, Graham Michael, Professor — director, appointed 06/03/2025not on trustee list
• RØTTINGEN, John-Arne, Dr — director, appointed 01/02/2024not on trustee list
• CHINNERY, Patrick Francis, Professor — director, appointed 27/10/2023on trustee list
• RYAN, Mary Patricia, Professor — director, appointed 22/08/2023on trustee list
• BIRD, Adrian Peter, Sir — director, appointed 11/01/2021on trustee list
• EALET, Isabelle Marie — director, appointed 15/02/2019on trustee list
• PANGALOS, Menelas Nicolas, Dr — director, appointed 21/12/2018on trustee list
• GILVARY, Brian, Dr — director, appointed 10/09/2018on trustee list
• BROWNE, Edmund John Phillip, Lord — director, appointed 01/08/2017on trustee list
• SAXENA, Rahul Erik — secretary, appointed 16/10/2023

Official officers record.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lord Edmund John Phillip Brownechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Brian Gilvary · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr John-Arne Rottingen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Menelas Nicolas Pangalos
• Dr Ruth Mitchell McKernan
• Isabelle Ealet
• Michelle Elizabeth Mitchell
• Peter Lutz George
• Professor Geraint Ellis Rees · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Graham Michael Lord
• Professor Mary Patricia Ryan
• Professor Patrick Francis Chinnery
• Professor Sir Adrian Peter Bird

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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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

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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 THE CHRISTIE CHARITY.

• THE CHRISTIE CHARITY income £23.8m
• THE INSTITUTE FOR CANCER VACCINES AND IMMUNOTHERAPY income £433k
• THE CHRONIC DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £214k
• FOUNDATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS income £371k
• SCIENCE PROJECTS income £1.2m
• THE INTENSIVE CARE SOCIETY income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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