THE ISAAC NEWTON TRUST

Registered charity 1209261 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Isaac Newton Trust was established as a Trust in 1988 by Trinity College. The Trust promotes learning, research and education in the University of Cambridge, primarily by providing support to early career researchers and by making research grants to departments and programmes within the University and its constituent Colleges.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE FUND UPON TRUST TO PROVIDE GRANTS LOANS AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS FACULTIES DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNIVERSITY WITH THE OBJECT OF PROMOTING ASSISTING AND FURTHERING EDUCATION LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITY. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, 'THE UNIVERSITY' MEANS THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

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

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

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds amounted to £4.3m, with the Trustees considering this level appropriate to meet anticipated commitments over the next five years. The charity reported a surplus of £0.2m for the year, resulting in an increase in uncommitted funds carried forward. The Trustees confirmed that systems are in place to mitigate major risks, including the low risk of reduced support from their main donor, Trinity College.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PEM Audit Limited. Discloses 4 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Professor Gemma Burgess — Director (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Dame Ann Dowlingchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR JOHN PYLE FRS
• Professor Ashit - Ash Amin
• Professor Ben Simons
• Professor Christine Holt
• Professor John Marenbon FBA
• Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe · trustee of 3 other charities
• Professor Nicholas Thomas
• Professor Rae Langton
• Professor Sharon Peacock · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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Side by side with its peers

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