THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Registered charity 1155893 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To disseminate knowledge, of the seas and marine life, including the use of marine and other organisms for basic biosciences for the benefit of the public (where biosciences means marine biology in its widest sense).

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Obituary: André Souza dos Santos (1983–2015) | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom cambridge.org · 10/08/2017
• A revised check-list of the seaweeds of Britain | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom cambridge.org · 29/10/2015
• The mushroom coral as a habitat | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom | Cambridge Core cambridge.org · 23/09/2011
• Bottom Fauna and the Food of Fishes | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom cambridge.org · 16/10/2009
• Benthic regions within the North Sea | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom cambridge.org · 06/10/2009
• Synopsis of the Medusae of the World | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom cambridge.org · 11/05/2009
• On the buoyancy of the pearly nautilus | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom cambridge.org · 11/05/2009
• Plant production on the Fladen ground | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom cambridge.org · 11/05/2009

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House RC000865

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Marine Biological Association (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Willie Wilson — Chief Executive (source)
• Dr Gill Rider CB — President (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.

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~29.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Gillian Riderchair
• Heather Koldewey
• Mark Dickey-Collas
• Matthew Longman MSc
• Professor Carol Robinson
• Professor Judith Petts
• Professor Mark Bailey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Rosalind Rickaby
• Professor Steven Wilhelm FRSC
• Professor Stuart Rogers · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT JOHN MILLS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Holmyard
• Yonela Ndila

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

Common questions

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 COLLEGE OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

• COLLEGE OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £14.4m
• THE CAMBRIDGE MALAYSIAN EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £102k
• MARITIME + ENGINEERING COLLEGE NORTH WEST income £3.1m
• THE ALBORADA TRUST income £735k
• BROOKLANDS MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED income £5.7m
• THE LENNOX HANNAY CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.