JISC

Registered charity 1149740 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE JISC CONTENT PROCUREMENT COMPANY LIMITED

Jisc champions the use of digital technologies in UK education and research. It provides a range of online services and training to education, learning and research communities in the UK.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net expenditure of £5.7m for the year, resulting in total net assets of £133.8m. The trustees confirm that unrestricted free reserves of £73.8m are sufficient to cover 5.3 months of normal operating costs, which exceeds the stated policy target of three months. The organization maintains a strong balance sheet with significant investment holdings and adequate cash resources to continue in operation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: JISC SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 02881024
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05747339

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.

• SPENCER, Karen Anna — director, appointed 04/06/2026on trustee list
• TURPIN, Christian Richard Spencer — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• LAMBERTS, Koenraad, Professor — director, appointed 01/04/2025not on trustee list
• SALZEN, Fiona — director, appointed 29/02/2024on trustee list
• COLLOP, Andrew Charles, Professor — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• NAWAZ, Raheel — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• O’SULLIVAN-HERITAGE, Helen Mary, Professor — director, appointed 01/01/2024not on trustee list
• CHALMERS, David James Wilson — director, appointed 21/03/2023on trustee list
• HUSBANDS, Christopher Roy, Sir — director, appointed 07/10/2022on trustee list
• FRASER-KRAUSS, Heidi Michele — director, appointed 16/09/2021on trustee list
• ASHTON, David John, Dr — director, appointed 18/01/2021on trustee list
• BOYLE, Paul Joseph, Professor — director, appointed 13/01/2021on trustee list
• COLBAN, Alice Jane — secretary, appointed 01/12/2012

Official officers record.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Practice Research Voices (PRVoices) - Scoping the Open Library of Practice Research —
• Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set —
• ENSEMBLE Performing Together Apart: Enhancing Immersive Multi-Location Co-Performance in Real Time —
• Terabit Bidirectional Multi-user Optical Wireless System (TOWS) for 6G LiFi —
• Palomera (2) —
• Streamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet Standards —
• Patterns in Practice: cultures of data mining in science, education and the arts —
• STFC DiRAC Project Office 2014-2017 —
• Enact Practice Research Data Service: PR Voices and SPARKLE Phase 2 —
• DIAMAS (3) —

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (46% 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: 35.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Paul Joseph Boylechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christian Richard Spencer Turpin
• David James Wilson Chalmers · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr David John Ashton
• Fiona Salzen
• Heidi Michele Fraser-Krauss
• Karen Anna Spencer
• Professor Andrew Charles Collop
• Professor Helen Mary O'Sullivan-Heritage
• Professor Koenradd Lamberts
• Professor Raheel Nawaz
• Professor Sir Christopher Roy Husbands · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 The Jones Community and Education Trust.

• The Jones Community and Education Trust income £365k
• UKCISA income £1.3m
• BSC Multicultural Services income £319k
• THE J ISAACS CHARITABLE TRUST income £725k
• JCOCI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION LTD income £916k
• JIGSAW + income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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