SOUTH ATLANTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1173105 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAERI

SAERI delivers world-class scientific academic research in marine, data, natural and physical sciences in the UK South Atlantic Overseas Territories, neighbouring South Atlantic nations, other UK Overseas Territories and beyond. SAERI also provides mentorship and supervision to PhD students in conjunction with our UK University partnerships.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,053,179 against total expenditure of £1,053,148, resulting in a negligible net surplus of £31. The charity holds total unrestricted and restricted reserves of £405,650, with unrestricted funds at £242,015. The Trustees confirm the organization is a going concern, citing diversified funding sources and commercial activities through its subsidiary.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Charles Peter Judge — Chairman (source)
• Dr Paul Brickle — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dr Alastair Baylis — Deputy Director- Science (source)
• Elaine Boyd — Head of Business & Finance (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).

• Austral Earth Observation Alliance — “We currently collaborate with and/or recieve funding from over 60 organisations some of which are shown here. AUSTRAL EARTH OBSERVATION ALLI…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 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 (65% 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: 18.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES JUDGE MBEchair
• Dr Amandine Gamble
• Dr Gary Nichols
• Prof Christopher David Evans
• Professor Richard John Sanders
• Professor Stuart B Piertney
• Tracy Kim Satherley

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

Operates in: Anguilla · Ascension · Falkland Islands · Montserrat · Namibia · Saint Helena · South Georgia And South Sandwich Islands · Tristan Da Cunha · Turks And Caicos Islands

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCH.

• SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCH income £535k
• THE SOUTH EAST RIVERS TRUST income £2.5m
• PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY income £16.4m
• ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH LIMITED income £29.3m
• SEA WATCH FOUNDATION, THE CETACEAN MONITORING UNIT income £472k
• PARTNERSHIP FOR OBSERVATION OF THE GLOBAL OCEAN income £780k

Side by side with its peers

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