PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 266446 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE

The Public Interest Research Centre is an independent charity focusing on issues that underpin the long-term public interest. We integrate key research on climate, energy & economics - widening its audience and increasing its impact.

Objects

TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO THE ORGANISATION AND ACTIVITY OR GOVERNMENT INDUSTRY BUSINESS TRADE THE PROFESSIONS AND THE SERVICES AND TO CALCULATE THEIR EFFECT UPON THE ENVIRONMENT AND LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY AND TO MAKE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AVAILABLE TO AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Powys, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£176k

Latest spending

£236k

Registered

1973

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that expenditure exceeded income by £59,652 in the current year, continuing a deficit from the prior year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £88,959, which the directors aim to maintain at a level sufficient to cover three months of running costs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months running costs (held: £89k)

“The directors try to ensure that the Charity has sufficient cash reserves to meet three months running costs, as funding is generally provided quarterly.” — page 3

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Prentis & Co LLP. 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 policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 01112242

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

VUKOVIC, Olgica — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
BANFIELD, Mark Lawrence — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
VARÈ, Chiara — director, appointed 20/04/2026not on trustee list
BLOCKER, Olivia — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
HYATT, Tamsyn Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/12/2023on trustee list
AKEHURST, Nathan — director, appointed 06/12/2023on trustee list
MAGEE, Carrie — director, appointed 06/12/2023on trustee list
JARRETT, Anthony James — secretary, appointed 28/06/2012

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

Carrie Magee
Chiara Vare
Nathan Akehurst
Olgica Vukovic
Olivia Blocker

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£176k	£236k
31/12/2024	£316k	£383k
31/12/2023	£391k	£268k
31/12/2022	£194k	£182k
31/12/2021	£199k	£199k

Common questions

Is PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that expenditure exceeded income by £59,652 in the current year, continuing a deficit from the prior year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £88,959, which the directors aim to maintain at a level sufficient to cover three months of running costs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Prentis & Co LLP.

Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST, PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION, THE LANKELLYCHASE FOUNDATION, NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST, POLDEN PUCKHAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£180k	Core costs
PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION	FY2023	£150k	Shared Ground Fund
THE LANKELLYCHASE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£120k	Support their Building Narrative power training course.
NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£19k
POLDEN PUCKHAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£15k	Peace and Security
THE LANKELLYCHASE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£2k	Core funding
THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST	FY2024	£950	Philanthropy, Cross-cutting & other

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
A B Charitable Trust	21/01/2026	£30k	A grant to Public Interest Research Centre
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	02/10/2023	£50k	Public Interest Research Centre
Barrow Cadbury Trust	23/02/2022	£30k	Future Stories: A Narrative Leadership Programme

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
TRUST FOR LONDON	2	£292k
THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION	1	£1.0m
JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS	1	£295k
THE LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION	1	£249k
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	1	£195k
DISRUPT FOUNDATION	1	£155k
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£153k
CHANGING IDEAS LTD	1	£140k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION.

THE PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION income £209k
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH income £6.2m
PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTRE income £2.6m
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH income £3.3m
THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH income £201k
PUBLIC INTEREST NEWS FOUNDATION income £613k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED	£176k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION FY2026	£209k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH FY2025	£6.2m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTRE FY2025	£2.6m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH FY2026	£3.3m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH FY2025	£201k	—	0	below	—	no doubt

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