THE FARADAY INSTITUTION
Get an alert when THE FARADAY INSTITUTION files next
Leroy will email you the moment a new filing lands at Companies House — one short note per filing, nothing else.
Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-25 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-11
Watchouts
Cash
£13M
+69.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£885K
+69.2% vs 2024
Employees
27
+8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£362K
+109.3% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
-
4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £28,642,245 | £32,823,250 | |
| Operating profit | -£4,172,566 | £117,281 | |
| Profit before tax | -£3,910,218 | £362,203 | |
| Net profit | -£3,910,218 | £362,203 | |
| Cash | £7,512,328 | £12,742,258 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £523,073 | £885,275 | |
| Net assets | £523,073 | £885,275 | |
| Equity | £523,072 | £885,275 | |
| Average employees | 25 | 27 | |
| Wages | £1,599,298 | £1,559,063 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -14.6% | 0.4% | |
| Net margin | -13.7% | 1.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -797.7% | 13.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.02x | 1.04x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis. In making this assumption, the Trustees have considered forecasts of income, expenditure and cash flow over future periods and believe that the organisation has sufficient funds to continue its activities for the foreseeable future. In particular, they have incorporated into the forecasts additional funding of £33 million, which was confirmed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in July 2025. This funding is intended to support the organisation's activities until 31 March 2027.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALLOW, Catherine | Secretary | 2025-09-17 | — | — |
| BRUNDLE, Robin Charles | Director | 2025-04-24 | Sep 1962 | British |
| COWLEY, Steven Charles, Dr | Director | 2024-04-24 | Oct 1959 | British |
| GLADDEN, Lynn Faith, Professor Dame | Director | 2023-07-03 | Jul 1961 | British |
| KIRNER, Hanno | Director | 2022-02-11 | Nov 1970 | German |
| NEWMAN, Mark Christopher | Director | 2021-03-15 | Apr 1974 | British |
| O'REILLY, Rachel Kerry | Director | 2025-04-24 | Jun 1977 | British |
| SHELDON, Isobel | Director | 2021-03-15 | Nov 1969 | British |
| SRINIVASAN, Venkat, Dr | Director | 2023-07-03 | Mar 1973 | American |
| TAYLOR, Esther, Dr | Director | 2022-02-11 | Jun 1972 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHILIP, Pramod | Secretary | 2017-12-14 | 2018-05-09 |
| ROBERTSON, Susan Mary | Secretary | 2018-05-09 | 2025-09-17 |
| BERGER, Stefan, Dr | Director | 2018-01-22 | 2020-03-25 |
| CHAMBERLAIN, Jeffrey, Dr | Director | 2018-01-22 | 2022-03-14 |
| DOCTER, Andreas, Dr | Director | 2020-03-16 | 2021-03-19 |
| EDSTROM, Ester Kristina, Professor | Director | 2018-03-20 | 2023-11-22 |
| GENTILI, Valentina, Dr | Director | 2025-04-24 | 2025-06-30 |
| GREEN, Johney, Dr | Director | 2018-01-22 | 2022-03-14 |
| HEIDARI-ROBINSON, Stephen | Director | 2017-10-10 | 2023-03-13 |
| LITTLEWOOD, Peter Brent | Director | 2017-09-12 | 2024-12-31 |
| MAXTON, Julie, Dr | Director | 2018-01-22 | 2021-03-15 |
| NELSON, Alan Edwin, Dr | Director | 2018-01-22 | 2019-07-23 |
| O'HARA, Cordelia | Director | 2021-03-15 | 2024-06-30 |
| PIKUNIC, Jorge Pablo | Director | 2018-01-22 | 2025-11-10 |
| SPEARING, Simon Mark, Professor | Director | 2018-01-22 | 2025-07-08 |
| THOMAS, Pamela Anne, Professor | Director | 2017-09-12 | 2020-09-11 |
| VAN TOL, Maurits, Dr | Director | 2020-07-06 | 2023-11-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Stephen Heidari-Robinson | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2018-01-12 | Ceased 2018-01-22 |
| Mr Peter Brent Littlewood | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-09-12 | Ceased 2018-01-22 |
| Professor Pamela Anne Thomas | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-09-12 | Ceased 2018-01-22 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 76 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-17 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-09-17 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 4
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+14.6%
£28,642,245 £32,823,250
-
Cash
+69.6%
£7,512,328 £12,742,258
-
Net assets
+69.2%
£523,073 £885,275
-
Employees
+8%
25 27
-
Operating profit
+102.8%
-£4,172,566 £117,281
-
Profit before tax
+109.3%
-£3,910,218 £362,203
-
Wages
-2.5%
£1,599,298 £1,559,063
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