BANGOR UNIVERSITY

Registered charity 1141565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q790029 · Wikipedia

TEACHING, RESEARCH AND THE PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF BANGOR UNIVERSITY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE AND DISSEMINATE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE BY TEACHING AND RESEARCH AND, BY ITS CORPORATE LIFE AS WELL AS ITS ACADEMIC WORK, TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO OBTAIN THE FULL ADVANTAGES OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: GWYNEDD, ISLE OF ANGLESEY, WREXHAM, FLINTSHIRE AND THE CITY OF LONDON

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: Gwynedd, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the University recorded an operating deficit of £18.290 million for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by a reduction in international student recruitment and sector-wide financial pressures. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased to £207.502 million, and the University maintains a £25 million revolving credit facility which has not yet been drawn upon. The Council considers the University to be a going concern, citing adequate resources to meet liabilities for at least 12 months from the date of approval.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW); Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• CoastWEB: Valuing the contribution which COASTal habitats make to human health and WEllBeing, with a focus on the alleviation of natural hazards —
• The CHERISH-DE Centre - Challenging Human Environments and Research Impact for a Sustainable and Healthy Digital Economy —
• : Utilising Marine Cultural Heritage in East Africa to help develop sustainable social, economic and cultural benefits —
• WISERD Civil Society: Changing perspectives on Civic Stratification and Civil Repair —
• Effects of warming on recruitment and marine benthic community development in Antarctica —
• New Frontiers of Lattice Field Theory —
• Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) —
• Further defining the genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease —
• Designing new radiation hard MAX phase coatings by understanding irradiation damage at the atomic scale —
• BraCe —

Property (HM Land Registry)

31 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (23 freehold); recorded price paid £600k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Bangor University scores 3.1/5 from 5 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (111,597 likes) · instagram (37K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Academic Advice and Welfare Projects Officer · Bangor
• Lecturer (Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice) (50% FTE) · Bangor
• Customer Service Supervisor · Bangor
• Security Administrator · Bangor
• Security Administrator · Bangor
• Supply Nursery Nurse · Bangor
• Grounds & Landscape Operative · Bangor

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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

• Marian Wyn Joneschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Aled Llion Jones
• Dr Ian James Rees · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Jean White CBE OStJ
• Dr John Thomas Prabhakar
• ELIN WYN
• Emily Rees
• Eric Douglas Hepburn
• Harry George Samuel Polley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Meleri Thomas
• Peter Waziri
• Professor Andrew Christopher Edwards
• Professor Edmund Burke
• Professor Raluca Luria Radulescu · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Stephen William Doughty
• Professor Timothy Wheeler
• Rheon Tomos · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ross Oliver Griffiths

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

Operates in: China · Flintshire · Gwynedd · Isle Of Anglesey · Wrexham

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 BANGOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION.

• BANGOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £1.6m
• PRIFYSGOL ABERYSTWYTH income £127.4m
• THE AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY (INTERNATIONAL) IN THE UNITED KINGDOM income £5.4m
• CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY income £353.8m
• CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY income £148.6m
• BAGRI FOUNDATION income £707k

Side by side with its peers

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