THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1162533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE INSTITUTE

THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE IS INTERESTED IN RESEARCH WHICH TACKLES THE BIG CHALLENGES IN DATA SCIENCE WITH LASTING EFFECTS FOR SCIENCE, THE ECONOMY AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. CORE AREAS OF OUR RESEARCH RANGE FROM DATA-CENTRIC ENGINEERING, HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND CYBER-SECURITY, TO SMART CITIES, HEALTH, THE ECONOMY AND DATA ETHICS

Objects

THE CHARITABLE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PARTICULARLY THROUGH RESEARCH, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, IN THE FIELDS OF DATA SCIENCES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£49.0m

Latest spending

£58.1m

Registered

2015

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity and Group made a deficit of £9.2m for the year ended 31 March 2025, funded by drawing on reserves. The Trustees confirm that there is a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence, adopting the going concern basis for the financial statements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £300,000 - £309,999 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £130k)

“£300,000 - £309,999 1”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: six months of anticipated operating costs (reserves figure: £11.1m)

“a minimum reserves threshold is set at £9.2m as at 31 March 2025, which is equivalent to six months of anticipated operating costs.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Payments to trustees: Dr Douglas Gurr received remuneration totalling £45,000 during the year for his role as Chairman of the Charity.

“Douglas Gurr received remuneration totalling £45,000 during the year for his role as Chairman of the Charity. (2023/24: £45,000).”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 5 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
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

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 47
Government income: £37,094,575 — contracts £12,938,791 (2), grants £24,155,784 (22); 76% of the £48,971,247 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 102 (£60,001–£70,000: 42; £70,001–£80,000: 27; £80,001–£90,000: 6; £90,001–£100,000: 8; £100,001–£110,000: 10; £110,001–£120,000: 1; £120,001–£130,000: 6; £200,001–£250,000: 1; £300,001–£350,000: 1)
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for acting as trustee
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 71
Government income: £30,886,259 — contracts £9,019,606 (2), grants £21,866,653 (26); 69% of the £45,043,617 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 89 (£60,001–£70,000: 42; £70,001–£80,000: 14; £80,001–£90,000: 11; £90,001–£100,000: 8; £100,001–£110,000: 8; £110,001–£120,000: 2; £120,001–£130,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 1; £200,001–£250,000: 2)
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for acting as trustee
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 53
Government income: £37,758,970 — contracts £5,627,054 (2), grants £32,131,916 (15); 72% of the £52,454,311 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 61 (£60,001–£70,000: 26; £70,001–£80,000: 11; £80,001–£90,000: 10; £90,001–£100,000: 3; £100,001–£110,000: 7; £120,001–£130,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 1; £200,001–£250,000: 1; £250,001–£300,000: 1)
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for acting as trustee
Has a trading subsidiary

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

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

UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute aol.co.uk · 15/10/2026
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute inkl.com · 10/10/2026
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute theguardian.com · 10/10/2026
Alan Turing Institute appoints three new trustees from EY, Darktrace and Chubb edtechinnovationhub.com · 06/10/2026
Superintelligent AI threats “do not leave us powerless to act”, Alan Turing Institute says dpaonthenet.net · 25/09/2026
Act on AI now, says Alan Turing Institute amid rising global tensions over safeguarding tech eandt.theiet.org · 23/09/2026
Alan Turing Institute seeks Chief Scientific Officer for UK AI agenda edtechinnovationhub.com · 06/07/2026
Why I left the Alan Turing Institute to join ‘game-changer’ AI lab thetimes.com · 02/06/2026

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 09512457
Trading subsidiary: TURING INNOVATIONS LIMITED Companies House 10015591

TURING INNOVATIONS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Turnover: £14.4m
Profit before tax: £298k
Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £980k
Staff and overhead cost recharges from parent charity

“A Gift Aid distribution of £980,109 was made to the parent charity in December 2024.”

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.

GRAHAM, Catherine Ann — director, appointed 24/08/2026not on trustee list
KAPOOR, Rakshit — director, appointed 24/08/2026not on trustee list
RADWAN, Golestan Sally — director, appointed 16/06/2025on trustee list
HILLSTON, Jane Elizabeth, Professor — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
TREFETHEN, Anne Elizabeth, Professor — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
REES, Geraint Ellis, Professor — director, appointed 13/10/2023on trustee list
LAWRENCE, Vanessa Vivienne, Dr — director, appointed 01/08/2020on trustee list
THAKRAR, Hitesh — director, appointed 01/08/2020on trustee list
KIRWAN, Kerry Emmet Arthur, Professor — director, appointed 28/04/2020on trustee list
FORSTER, Vanessa — secretary, appointed 09/09/2020

Official officers record.

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.

Buyer	Contract	Awarded	Value
Met Office	DN772326 - Framework for Applied Science Technology and Engineering Requirements	03/04/2026	£57.0m

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

Total income

£49.0m

Total spending

£58.1m

Cost of raising funds

£822k

Reserves (reported)

£28.3m

Employees

433

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (66% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Adrian Beltonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
Catherine Ann Graham
Dr Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence
Golestan Sally Radwan
Hitesh Thakrar · trustee of 1 other charity
Professor Anne Elizabeth Trefethen
Professor Geraint Ellis Rees · trustee of 1 other charity
Professor Jane Elizabeth Hillston
Professor Kerry Kirwan
Rakshit Kapoor · trustee of 1 other charity
Tracey Ann Bowen-Lowe · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£49.0m	£58.1m
31/03/2024	£45.0m	£53.0m
31/03/2023	£52.5m	£47.3m
31/03/2022	£51.1m	£39.3m
31/03/2021	£37.3m	£31.7m

Common questions

Is THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Charity and Group made a deficit of £9.2m for the year ended 31 March 2025, funded by drawing on reserves. The Trustees confirm that there is a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence, adopting the going concern basis for the financial statements. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe UK LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £300,000 - £309,999 band.

Who funds THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE as a grant recipient include LLOYD'S REGISTER FOUNDATION, ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH UK, THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST, COOPERATIVE AI FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
LLOYD'S REGISTER FOUNDATION	FY2023	£3.0m	Follow-on funding for Data-Centric Engineering Programme
ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH UK	FY2023	£260k	Research
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST	FY2022	£135k	Secondary - The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH UK	FY2022	£48k
LLOYD'S REGISTER FOUNDATION	FY2024	£47k	Heritage And Education Centre
COOPERATIVE AI FOUNDATION	FY2025	£5k
ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH UK	FY2021	£2k	Grant paid to institution

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	20/02/2024	£117k	Understanding malicious uses of generative AI during elections through a live demonstration platform
UK government	01/04/2022	£100k	The Alan Turing Institute
UK government	01/04/2022	£55k	DEFIANT: Drivers and Effects of Fluctuations in sea Ice in the ANTarctic
UK government	01/04/2022	£61k	Machines Reading Maps: Finding and Understanding Text on Maps
UK government	01/04/2022	£72k	Defragmenting the fragmented urban landscape (DEFRAG)
UK government	01/04/2022	£70k	PATH-AI: Mapping an Intercultural Path to Privacy, Agency, and Trust in Human-AI Ecosystems
UK government	01/04/2022	£697k	Advancing Probabilistic Machine Learning to Deliver Safer, More Efficient, and Predictable Air Traffic Control
UK government	01/04/2022	£772k	FAIR: Framework for responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the financial seRvices industry
UK government	01/04/2022	£5.0m	The Alan Turing Institute 21/22 - Additional Funding
UK government	01/04/2022	£14.3m	The Alan Turing Institute 22/23 - Core and Additional Funding
UK government	01/04/2022	£1.7m	Living with Machines
UK government	01/04/2020	£70k	Executive Education in Data Science Portal
UK government	01/04/2019	£394k	PATH-AI: Mapping an Intercultural Path to Privacy, Agency, and Trust in Human-AI Ecosystems
UK government	01/04/2019	£5k	Data Science SME project
UK government	01/04/2018	£9.0m	ALB - UKRI - Living with Machines

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
Founders Pledge Ltd	1	£1.1m
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION	1	£136k
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATION	1	£14k
THE MARK LEONARD TRUST	1	£11k
THE AURORA TRUST	1	£11k
THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£11k
THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST	1	£10k
THE BUZZACOTT STUART DEFRIES MEMORIAL FUND	1	£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CENTER ON LONG-TERM RISK.

CENTER ON LONG-TERM RISK income £1.5m
THE TURING TRUST income £783k
SCIENCE PROJECTS income £1.2m
THE NUCLEAR INSTITUTE income £1.4m
THE ALEXANDRIA TRUST income £48k
RESEARCH DATA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION income £604k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE	£49.0m	£300,000 - £309,999	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CENTER ON LONG-TERM RISK FY2024	£1.5m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE TURING TRUST FY2025	£783k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
SCIENCE PROJECTS FY2025	£1.2m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FY2025	£1.4m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE ALEXANDRIA TRUST FY2025	£48k	—	0	below	—	noted

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