JOHN INNES CENTRE

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. JOHN INNES CENTRE 1994-06-10 → present
2. PLANT SCIENCE RESEARCH LIMITED 1990-08-21 → 1994-06-10
3. AFRC INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCE RESEARCH 1987-10-01 → 1990-08-21
4. PLANT BREEDING INSTITUTE(THE) 1952-09-25 → 1987-10-01

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Larking Gowen LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The trustees have prepared cash flow forecasts for the period to March 2028 which indicate that, taking account of reasonable possible downsides and the potential impact of inflation on the operations and its financial resources, the Institute will have sufficient funds to meet is liabilities as they fall due for that period. The Institute is reliant on its strategic programme funding from BBSRC, which was £14.6m in the year (2024: £14.6m). BBSRC has confirmed strategic funding of £14.6m for the year to March 2026 and in principle funding at this level for the 2 years to March 2028. The Institute has prepared income, reserves and cash flow forecasts to March 2028. The forecasts indicate that the Institute will have significant cash headroom over the period. The assessment has included consideration of the NGI project, and in particular, funding, cash flows and the programmes wider risks. Consequently, the trustees are confident that the Institute will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. JOHN INNES CENTRE · parent
   1. John Innes Enterprises Limited 100% · England · Commerce
   2. Norwich Biosciences Limited 100% · England · Dormant
   3. Norwich Research Limited 100% · England · Dormant
   4. JIC NRP Capital Limited 100% · England · Member of Anglia Innovation Partnership LLP

Significant events

• “Professor Graham Moore retired as Director, and Professor Cristobal Uauy was welcomed into the role of Director.”
• “A new world-class research environment project, Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI), supported by UKRI Infrastructure Fund capital investment of £317.7m, has started.”
• “Leaf Expression Systems Limited entered liquidation in August 2024.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +5.9%

  £74,412,000 → £78,782,000

• Cash

  -8.8%

  £48,334,000 → £44,093,000

• Net assets

  +19.6%

  £126,054,000 → £150,788,000

• Employees

  -0.6%

  346 → 344

• Wages

  +2.4%

  £13,630,000 → £13,960,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers