CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE CENTRE

Registered charity 1146349 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5025524 · Wikipedia

The Cambridge Science Centre develops and hosts STEM-themed exhibitions and programmes. We aim to inspire broader public participation in tall STEM topics and to improve public accessibility to current research. We achieve this through hands-on exhibits and workshops, school visits, pop-up science engagements, evening programming for adults and supporting on-line content.

Objects

1) THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO ADVANCE AND DEVELOP: I) THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN PRINCIPLE AND APPLICATION;II) PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN PARTICULAR AS RELATES TO PUBLIC POLICY AND ETHICS; III) AND, PUBLIC ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND EAST ANGLIA.2) THE CHARITY SHALL ALSO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES, WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC AND WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS STATED ABOVE, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £193,262 for the year ended 31 December 2025. However, the general free reserves balance was negative £29,388, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £275,000. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves are insufficient to meet liabilities in a wind-down scenario without a major donor guarantee.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PEM Audit Limited. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Harriet Fear MBE — Chair (source)
• Andrew Farrer — Director of Programmes and Impact (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Trinity Centre — “We are grateful to our supporters at The Trinity Centre” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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: 8.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Hazell East
• Amy Joanne Weatherup
• Ayeisha Kone-Massouma
• Bruno Francisco Valente Cotta
• Harriet Emma Fear
• James Doherty
• James John Paul Marsh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mike Rigby
• Richard Edge
• Serena MacMillan
• TAMARA HILARY ANGELINE SWORD

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Essex · Herefordshire · Lincolnshire · Luton · Milton Keynes · Norfolk · Peterborough City · Suffolk

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 SCIENCE PROJECTS.

• SCIENCE PROJECTS income £1.2m
• SCIENCE MEDIA CENTRE income £775k
• CAMBRIDGE MUSEUM OF TECHNOLOGY income £141k
• CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY income £1.1m
• IN2SCIENCEUK.ORG income £1.6m
• CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £16.0m

Side by side with its peers

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