INVISIBLE DUST

Registered charity 1171156 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Invisible Dust works with leading artists and scientists to produce unique and exciting works of contemporary art and new scientific ideas exploring our environment and climate change.

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

Latest income

£393k

Latest spending

£446k

Registered

2017

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £52,303 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £216,445 to £164,142. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £106,256, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £53,000, and the trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: Under £60,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £60k)

“No employee received remuneration of more than £60,000 during the year” — page 32

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three months of core costs, one month core R&D staff cost, and any financial commitments and legal fees (held: £106k)

“The updated policy requires us to build and maintain reserves at a level to meet the following areas of cost: three months of core costs, one month core R&D staff cost, and any financial commitments and legal fees. These three cost items totalled an estimated £53,000”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Total income

£734k

Total spending

£506k

Cost of raising funds

£3k

Reserves (reported)

£81k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Ansuman Biswas · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Magnus Laurence Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
Fiona Fieber · trustee of 1 other charity
GILLEAN DICKIE
SUSAN JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
Yuki Sumner

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£393k	£446k
31/03/2024	£454k	£383k
31/03/2023	£424k	£383k
31/03/2022	£481k	£624k
31/03/2021	£734k	£506k

Common questions

Is INVISIBLE DUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £52,303 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £216,445 to £164,142. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £106,256, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £53,000, and the trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory with no material uncertainties regarding going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

What does the highest-paid employee of INVISIBLE DUST earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the Under £60,000 band.

Who funds INVISIBLE DUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name INVISIBLE DUST as a grant recipient include CLEAN AIR FUND.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
CLEAN AIR FUND	FY2023	£152k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Greater London Authority	16/05/2023	£26k	Forecast 2023
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	09/12/2019	£14k	Invisible Dust
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	17/02/2017	£12k	Invisible Dust

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
THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION	2	£4k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£4k
BACKSTAGE TRUST	1	£175k
THE CHARLES SKEY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£140k
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION	1	£120k
THE RODDICK FOUNDATION	1	£93k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	1	£85k
ROYAL COMMISSION FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851	1	£53k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DUST PROJECT.

THE DUST PROJECT income £199k
INSTITUTE OF IMAGINATION income £512k
THE ARTS DEPOT TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
OUTSIDE IN ART income £572k
THE ASPEX VISUAL ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £312k
WE THE CURIOUS LIMITED income £7.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
INVISIBLE DUST	£393k	Under £60,000	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE DUST PROJECT FY2024	£199k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
INSTITUTE OF IMAGINATION FY2025	£512k	£80,001 - £90,000	0	below	—	no doubt
THE ARTS DEPOT TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£2.5m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
OUTSIDE IN ART FY2025	£572k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE ASPEX VISUAL ARTS TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£312k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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