FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Registered charity 274727 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation is a neutral body set up to facilitate debate on policy issues that have a science, engineering, technology or medical element. The Foundation publishes a journal and a website that communicates to the public the outcomes of the debates - see www.foundation.org.uk . The Foundation also provides guidance to learned and professional societies.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND TO BRING ABOUT THE GREATER EFFICIENCY OF THE INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH.

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: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £2,176 for the year ended 31 December 2025, following a surplus in the prior year. Total reserves decreased from £497,046 to £494,870, with unrestricted free reserves falling to £60,338. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Foundation for Science and Technology (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Shah
• Dr Horia Alexandru Maior
• Dr Julia Katherine Maxton
• Dr Sarah Main · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Neale
• Karlien Porre
• Lord Ajay Kumar Kakkar · trustee of 4 other charities
• Professor Tariq Ali
• Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn
• The Rt Hon the Lord David Willetts FRS

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCIENCE PROJECTS.

• SCIENCE PROJECTS income £1.2m
• SCIENCE MEDIA CENTRE income £775k
• THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK income £451k
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES income £19.2m
• FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC THINKING income £31k
• SENSE ABOUT SCIENCE income £795k

Side by side with its peers

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