MATHSWORLDUK

Registered charity 1155010 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

MathsWorldUK is a company that has the intention of setting up a museum/discovery centre for mathematics in the UK. During the year 2019-20 MathsWorldUK raised funds to equip and put forth a touring mathematics exhibition. We are about to open a physical centre, known as MathsCity, in Leeds so that we can display to the public many mathematical exhibits, puzzles games, etc.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £72,446 at the year end, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of six months of ongoing expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £1,002,072 for the year, driven primarily by restricted grant funding, while total expenditure was £441,976. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by LMH Accountants Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08370409

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Katie Chicot — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Professor Margaret Brown, OBE — Chair of the Charity Trustees (source)
• Professor Tom Ward — Deputy Chair of the Charity Trustees (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).

• Open University — “MATHS WORLDUK is particularly grateful for the ongoing support of the Open University.” (source page)

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.

• CALLAGHAN, Duncan Ian — director, appointed 27/01/2025on trustee list
• LEGNER, Philipp — director, appointed 11/09/2024on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Catherine Mary — director, appointed 15/02/2024on trustee list
• BERGEMANN, Christoph Karl, Dr — director, appointed 15/02/2024on trustee list
• RUSHWORTH, Mark James — director, appointed 15/05/2023on trustee list
• MCCLURE, Catherine Lynne — director, appointed 10/03/2023on trustee list
• HOLLAND, Ruth Marie — director, appointed 20/05/2022on trustee list
• CLAPHAM, Helen — director, appointed 24/03/2022on trustee list
• WARD, Thomas Boulton, Professor — director, appointed 29/05/2021on trustee list
• FISKEN, Roger Anthony, Dr — director, appointed 06/11/2017not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Lynne McClure · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Mary Griffiths
• DR ROGER ANTHONY FISKEN MA DPHIL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Christoph Karl Bergemann
• Duncan Ian Callaghan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Clapham
• Mark James Rushworth
• Philipp Legner
• Professor Thomas Boulton Ward
• Ruth Marie Holland

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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNITED KINGDOM MATHEMATICS TRUST.

• UNITED KINGDOM MATHEMATICS TRUST income £2.5m
• CATALYST SCIENCE DISCOVERY CENTRE AND MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED income £861k
• THE UNIVERSITY MATHS SCHOOLS NETWORK income £2.6m
• Axiom Maths income £6.4m
• WorldSkills UK income £8.1m
• MATHEMATICS IN EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY income £11.7m

Side by side with its peers

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