ORIEL SCIENCE

Registered charity 1208496 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Oriel Science is an educational charity which engages the public and school students with cutting-edge STEAMM research and innovation from universities and other organisations. Our mission is to use the wow factor of this research to inspire and enhance the Future Generations educational and career journeys, address under-representations, and enrich the general public's affinity with science.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ARTS, MATHEMATICS AND MEDICINE (STEAMM) EDUCATION BY MEANS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: I) PROVIDING WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOL GROUPS AND YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY AMONGST UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS, TO ADVANCE THEIR CAREER JOURNEYS II) PROVIDING A PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME TO ENHANCE THE GENERAL PUBLIC’S SCIENCE CAPITAL 2. THE CHARITY WILL ALSO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES, WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC AND WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS STATED ABOVE, AS TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £40,847 at the year end, with no restricted or endowment funds held. The trustees maintain a policy of holding reserves sufficient to cover three to six months of running costs to ensure operational continuity. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention that would hinder a proper understanding of the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Sarah Roberts
• Emily MacAulay
• Professor Christopher Allton
• Professor Martin Stringer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tanya Foxall

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ORIEL MYRDDIN.

• ORIEL MYRDDIN income £128k
• SCIENCE CREATES OUTREACH income £124k
• ORIEL MYRDDIN income £200k
• THE HOUSE OF THE BLESSED MARY THE VIRGIN IN OXFORD, COMMONLY CALLED ORIEL COLLEGE, OF THE FOUNDATION OF EDWARD THE SECOND OF FAMOUS MEMORY SOMETIME KING OF ENGLAND income £15.8m
• OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.4m
• IN2SCIENCEUK.ORG income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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