THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION

Registered charity 206601 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of social well being, particularly by scientific research. We do this in two ways: by supporting research, enquiry and innovative development that will contribute to the improvement of policy and practice; and by supporting young people to develop their interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £565 million, with investments valued at £596 million, significantly exceeding long-term targets. The Trustees confirm that cash and gilt holdings are double the requirement to meet forecast outflows, ensuring sufficient reserves to continue as a going concern. The unrestricted general fund is reported as £9.6 million, though the charity's policy is not to maintain a general unrestricted reserve.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Sir Keith Burnett CBE, FRS, FInstPhys, FLSW — Chair (source)
• Gavin Kelly — Chief Executive (source)
• Nicola Webb — Executive Director, Strategy, Governance and Engagement (source)
• Josh Hillman — Director, Education (source)
• Rob Street — Director, Justice (source)
• Mark Franks — Director, Welfare (source)
• Deirdre Carty — Director, HR and Office Services (source)
• Natalie Leon — Director, Finance and Information Systems (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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (57% 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: 19.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Keith Burnettchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dame Clare Tickell
• John James Pullinger CB
• Professor Ann Alison Phoenix
• Professor Ash Amin CBE
• Professor Brian David Bell
• Professor Lorraine Margaret Dearden

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NUFFIELD COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

• NUFFIELD COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £14.0m
• THE NORTON FOUNDATION income £153k
• THE NUFFIELD TRUST FOR RESEARCH AND POLICY STUDIES IN HEALTH SERVICES income £3.6m
• THE EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION income £52.4m
• JOHN INNES FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF WELL-BEING income £364k

Side by side with its peers

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