Registered charity 1141565

Bangor University

What it does

TEACHING, RESEARCH AND THE PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Its charitable purposes

THE OBJECTS OF BANGOR UNIVERSITY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE AND DISSEMINATE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE BY TEACHING AND RESEARCH AND, BY ITS CORPORATE LIFE AS WELL AS ITS ACADEMIC WORK, TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO OBTAIN THE FULL ADVANTAGES OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: Education and training
Who it helps: The general public
How it works: Provides services
Sponsors or carries out research

The charity chose these from the Charity Commission's list.

Where it works

In Wales

Isle of Anglesey
Flintshire
Wrexham
Gwynedd

Elsewhere

China

Area of benefit in its governing document: Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Wrexham, Flintshire and the City of London

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

Income and spending

In the year ending 31 July 2025, it had income of £160,358,000 and spent £176,808,000.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 July 2025	£160,358,000	£176,808,000	1,597	Not reported
31 July 2024	£170,118,000	£141,256,000	1,656	Not reported
31 July 2023	£177,704,000	£171,985,000	1,703	Not reported
31 July 2022	£163,249,000	£200,296,000	1,641	205
31 July 2021	£153,368,000	£154,917,000	1,592	46

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Financial position

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time: Up 5%, from £153,368,000 in the year to 31 July 2021 to £160,358,000 in the year to 31 July 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 110% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.
Money from government: 8% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£13,216,000).
Largest funder: Medr gave £14,516,000 in the year to 31 July 2025, 9% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government funding, as the charity reported it

Government grants in the year ending 31 July 2025: £3,728,000 from 6 grants. Government contracts: £9,488,000 from 35 contracts.

Income from government grants and contracts by financial year
Year ending	Government grants	Government contracts
31 July 2025	£3,728,000 from 6 grants	£9,488,000 from 35 contracts
31 July 2024	Not reported	£11,925,332 from 21 contracts
31 July 2023	£2,433,000 from 6 grants	£11,272,934 from 22 contracts
31 July 2022	£12,443,000 from 14 grants	Not reported
31 July 2021	£10,905,000 from 14 grants	Not reported

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Where its income came from in the year ending 31 July 2025

Donations and legacies£862,000
Charitable activities, including grants and contracts for its work£143,319,000
Trading and fundraising£2,428,000
Investments£1,371,000
Other£12,378,000

From the charity's annual return. Only charities with income over £500,000 give this breakdown.

Who funds it, according to its accounts

In its accounts for the year ending 31 July 2025, the charity named 19 funders who gave £43,829,000 between them. £33,948,000 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Money received from each named funder, by accounts year
Funder	Type	Jul 2025	Jul 2024	Jul 2023
Medr	Other public body	£14,516,000
UK Government	UK Government	£11,937,000
UK Research and Innovation	UK Government	£4,390,000
Welsh Government	Welsh Government	£3,105,000	£2,145,000	£2,433,000
UK industry & commerce	Trust, company or other	£2,227,000
Research Wales Innovation Fund	Trust, company or other	£1,999,000
UK charities	Trust, company or other	£1,271,000
Welsh Medium Initiatives	Trust, company or other	£994,000
Degree Apprenticeships	Trust, company or other	£927,000
Research Capital	Trust, company or other	£865,000
Mentoring Project	Trust, company or other	£571,000
Better Mental Health	Trust, company or other	£263,000
Regional Innovation Fund	Trust, company or other	£245,000
Institutional Science Partnerships Fund	Trust, company or other	£224,000
PGT Masters	Trust, company or other	£171,000
HE & FE Collaboration	Trust, company or other	£124,000
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales	Other public body		£19,226,000	£22,085,000

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Charities whose accounts say they funded it

Funder	Year ending	Amount
Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol	31 March 2025	£806,374
Cancer Research Wales	31 March 2026	£246,073
Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol	31 March 2024	£901,789
Cancer Research Wales	31 March 2025	£100,000

Grants paid to this charity, as other charities' accounts record them. Read by the same AI accounts reader.

Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 31 grants to this charity since 2011, worth at least £6,331,582.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

By funder

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£5,364,170, 18 grants
Nuffield Foundation£672,192, 3 grants
The National Lottery Community Fund£119,341, 2 grants
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£112,126, 4 grants
The National Lottery Heritage Fund£33,753, 3 grants
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000, 1 grant

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
8 Sept 2025	Garfield Weston FoundationMulti-Year Grant (2 Years) award	£30,000
24 Mar 2025	The National Lottery Community FundHedfan / Fly - Dance for Parkinson's	£19,980
3 Jun 2024	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"#COED2 Restoration and Reinvigoration of Maritime Woodland at Treborth Botanic Garden"	£17,853
8 Jun 2022	Nuffield FoundationGrant to Bangor University	£360,482
7 Apr 2022	Nuffield FoundationGrant to Bangor University	£198,377
19 Sept 2019	The National Lottery Community FundYn Y Foment	£99,361
6 Sept 2018	Nuffield FoundationJustice grant	£113,333
6 Aug 2018	Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsGrant SEFLOS contribution	£2,800
1 Jul 2018	Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsGrant: Darwin Scoping Projects DARSC188 Developing community capacity for sustainable marine aquaculture in Vanuatu	£5,750
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Forecasting biodiversity losses in Wallacea from ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes.	£297,300

All 31 grants

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySafe Biodegradable Packaging (SafeBioPack)	£667,317
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyUltra-Stable High-Performance Nanolasers	£389,956
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyReal-time in situ sensing of soil nitrogen status to promote enhanced nitrogen use efficiency in agricultural systems	£316,602
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Microbial hitch-hikers of marine plastics: the survival, persistence & ecology of microbial communities in the Plastisphere	£489,170
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Spatial Audio in Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies	£15,132
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - MobilES - Using mobile-phone technology to capture ecosystem service information	£218,798
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Breaking the Barriers to Soil Testing on Pastures (Breaking-STEP)	£229,099
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Graphene Compostable Barrier Packaging (GraCoPack)	£55,991
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Artificial Light Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems (ALICE)	£648,227
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - UK-China Agritech Challenge Zero-Waste Agricultural Mulch Films for Crops in China (ZEWAMFI)	£398,751
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Primary productivity driven by escalating nutrient fluxes?	£215,769
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Emotional AI: Comparative Considerations for UK and Japan across Commercial, Political and Security Sectors	£50,288
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Improving Methods of Characterising Resource, Interactions and Conditions (METRIC)	£287,382
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Light Actuated Microrobots	£630,326
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Can phenotypic plasticity and DNA methylation promote adaptive radiation?	£53,179
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Development and evaluation of an integrated early childhood development and violence prevention teacher-training intervention in Jamaican preschools	£180,852
27 Oct 2017	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"From Curig to Castle – Exploring the Communities of the Ogwen Valley"	£10,000
1 Jul 2017	Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsDARSC176 Darwin Initiative 23 Scoping	£865
1 May 2017	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySustainable futures for the Costa Rica dairy sector: optimising environmental and economic outcomes	£220,032
1 Apr 2017	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs24-009 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main	£102,711
15 Jun 2011	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"The Meillionydd Project"	£5,900

In council meetings

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

29 September 2026, Denbighshire
Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet
DENBIGHSHIRE CLIMATE CHANGE RISK ASSESSMENT (CCRA)
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17 July 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
APOLOGIES
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30 June 2026, Ceredigion
Named in an agenda item or minute of Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education in Ceredigion (SACRE)
LA / National updates
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29 June 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Language Committee
RESULTS OF THE PILOT STUDY ON THE USE OF WELSH IN PUBLIC PLACES THAT PROVIDE SERVICES ON BEHALF OF CYNGOR GWYNEDD
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29 June 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Language Committee
REPORT BY THE ADULTS, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING DEPARTMENT AND THE CHILDREN AND SUPPORTING FAMILIES DEPARTMENT ON THEIR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LANGUAGE POLICY AND CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS REALISING THE WELSH LANGUAGE STRATEGY 2023-2033
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18 June 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee
PERFORMANCE REPORT OF THE CABINET MEMBER FOR CORPORATE SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT
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18 June 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee
PERFORMANCE REPORT OF THE CABINET MEMBER FOR EDUCATION
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15 June 2026, Conwy
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales Police and Crime Panel
Feedback from Member Champions
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12 June 2026, Gwynedd
Named in a decision of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
FULL BUSINESS CASE FOR ALBERT GUBAY BUSINESS SCHOOL, BANGOR UNIVERSITY
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12 June 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
APOLOGIES
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12 June 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
DECLARATION OF PERSONAL INTEREST
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2 June 2026, Denbighshire
Named in an agenda item or minute of Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE)
DENBIGHSHIRE SUMMER 2026 NEWSLETTER
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15 May 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
FLINTSHIRE AND WREXHAM INVESTMENT ZONE: INITIAL INNOVATION PROGRAMME PROJECTS
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15 May 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
APOLOGIES
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27 April 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Planning Committee
Application No C25/0705/11/LL Coleg Menai, Friars Building, Coleg Menai, Ffordd Ffriddoedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2TS
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13 March 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
DECLARATION OF PERSONAL INTEREST
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13 March 2026, Gwynedd
Named in a decision of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
EGNI FULL BUSINESS CASE
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13 March 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
APOLOGIES
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12 February 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee
VISITOR LEVY
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12 February 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee
BENEFIT OF THE GROWTH DEAL FOR GWYNEDD
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9 February 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Language Committee
REPORT BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ON THEIR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LANGUAGE POLICY AND CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS REALISING THE WELSH LANGUAGE STRATEGY 2023-2033
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6 February 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
APOLOGIES
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22 January 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Communities Scrutiny Committee
GWYNEDD AND ANGLESEY PUBLIC SERVICES BOARD PROGRESS REPORT
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10 December 2025, Conwy
Named in an agenda item or minute of Conwy and Denbighshire Public Services Board
Climate Change Risk Assessment (verbal update)
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5 December 2025, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of North Wales CJC Economic Well-being Sub-committee
APOLOGIES
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In the Senedd and Welsh Government

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20 October 2026
Named in a written question from Darren Millar
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language.
…in everyday life. We have funded the development of Welsh language AI through our technology grants. In 2026–27, this includes support for Bangor University’s Iriaith project to develop and improve Welsh language AI models and technology tools, and Cardiff University’s work to develop Welsh languag…
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21 September 2026
Named by Dafydd Trystan Davies in the Senedd
…a significant contribution to the development of Welsh law, who has a great interest in these things, and made a significant contribution in Bangor University in the development of the school of law. So, my apologies to my friends and colleagues in Bangor University.
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21 September 2026
Named by Adrian Mason in the Senedd
For the record, you mentioned Cardiff and Aberystwyth, don't forget Bangor University also studies—[Laughter.]
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18 September 2026
Named in a written question from John Clark
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language.
…gual word embeddings, https://github.com/cardiffnlp/en-cy-bilingual-embeddings • BydTermCymru, tmx files, Translation memories | GOV.WALES • Bangor University translation memories, https://cofion.techiaith.cymru/cy/search#cy_niwral • https://techiaith.cymru/cwmwl/api/lemmateiddiwr/ • Termiadur addys…
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18 September 2026
Named in a written question from John Clark
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language.
…gual word embeddings, https://github.com/cardiffnlp/en-cy-bilingual-embeddings • BydTermCymru, tmx files, Translation memories | GOV.WALES • Bangor University translation memories, https://cofion.techiaith.cymru/cy/search#cy_niwral • https://techiaith.cymru/cwmwl/api/lemmateiddiwr/ • Termiadur addys…
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18 September 2026
Named in a written question from John Clark
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language.
…gual word embeddings, https://github.com/cardiffnlp/en-cy-bilingual-embeddings • BydTermCymru, tmx files, Translation memories | GOV.WALES • Bangor University translation memories, https://cofion.techiaith.cymru/cy/search#cy_niwral • https://techiaith.cymru/cwmwl/api/lemmateiddiwr/ • Termiadur addys…
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18 September 2026
Named in a written question from John Clark
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language.
…gual word embeddings, https://github.com/cardiffnlp/en-cy-bilingual-embeddings • BydTermCymru, tmx files, Translation memories | GOV.WALES • Bangor University translation memories, https://cofion.techiaith.cymru/cy/search#cy_niwral • https://techiaith.cymru/cwmwl/api/lemmateiddiwr/ • Termiadur addys…
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15 September 2026
Named by Adrian Mason in the Senedd
…niversities are under severe financial pressure. The sector recorded an underlying deficit of more than £79 million according to Medr, while Bangor University alone reported a deficit of nearly £19 million, alongside redundancies. And the number of Welsh students studying at Welsh universities has f…
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15 September 2026
Named by Adrian Mason in the Senedd
How to follow that? A declaration of interest: my wife works for Bangor University, Llywydd. Sut i ddilyn hynna? Datganiad o fuddiant: mae fy ngwraig yn gweithio i Brifysgol Bangor, Lywydd.
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23 July 2026
Named in a registered interest of Adrian Mason, Member of the Senedd
Category: Remunerated Employment, Directorships etc..
Entry in respect of: Spouse Name and nature of the employer: Bangor University Nature of the post: Deputy/Interim Head of School Date on which the employment commenced: 1 January 2005
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13 July 2026
Named in a written question from Natasha Asghar
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care.
…2024/25 Wales Rest of the UK (including Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, and UK unknown) Non-UK Unknown Aberystwyth University 170 30 30 0 Bangor University 895 145 55 5 Cardiff University 955 370 80 0 Swansea University 1,085 115 115 0 The Open University (Welsh national centre) 350 0 0 0 Univers…
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19 June 2026
Named in a registered interest of Darren Millar, Member of the Senedd
Category: Membership/Chairmanship of bodies in receipt of direct or indirect Senedd Commission or Welsh Government funds.
Entry in respect of: Member Name of organisation: Bangor University Court Role within organisation: Member
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16 June 2026
Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd
…funding, certainly, the fact that we're looking on a cross-portfolio basis—. If you look at the report made for the Arts Council of Wales by Bangor University and also by Edge Hill University—I'm very happy to share a copy of this—it does show the savings that investment in the arts can make in term…
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16 June 2026
Named by Anna Brychan in the Senedd
…the materials and resources that that is developing is certainly part of what we want to offer in that space. Valuable work is being done in Bangor University, I think—led by Bangor University—in that field, and also around synthetic phonics, which, obviously, we want to work with. And as we publish…
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31 May 2026
Named in a registered interest of Mair Rowlands, Member of the Senedd
Category: Remunerated Employment, Directorships etc..
Entry in respect of: Partner Name and nature of the employer: Bangor University Nature of the post: Lecturer
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31 May 2026
Named in a registered interest of Mair Rowlands, Member of the Senedd
Category: Remunerated Employment, Directorships etc..
Entry in respect of: Member Name and nature of the employer: Bangor University Nature of the post: Director, Bangor University Students' Union Amount of remuneration received: Band 5: between £2,501 and £5,000 Average number of hours devoted each week: N/A Additional information: This will be the la…
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4 March 2026
Named by Mark Isherwood in the Senedd
…e are now. This journey for me began eight years ago—some of you have heard me say this before—at the Lend Me Your Ears annual conference at Bangor University, held up until the pandemic annually for deaf people in north Wales and families with deaf members in north Wales. I attended that. In 2018,…
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4 March 2026
Named by Lynne Neagle in the Senedd
…of child development and mental health. In initial teacher education, we've strengthened the accreditation criteria in relation to ALN, and Bangor University are currently piloting a primary post-graduate certificate in education with neurodiversity specialism. But, as part of the work that we're d…
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23 February 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min CSSP
Purpose: M-Sparc & Bangor University.
M-Sparc & Bangor University
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23 February 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: CabsecEEP
Purpose: Bangor University.
Bangor University
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18 February 2026
Named in a written question from Janet Finch-Saunders
Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning.
…rements and plan future skills provision accordingly. On 23 February 2026, the Minister for Skills, Culture and Social Partnership and I met Bangor University and its Nuclear Future Institute to discuss how the University could contribute to the wider skills agenda in the nuclear sector and the oppo…
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10 February 2026
Named by Carolyn Thomas in the Senedd
On Friday, I visited the excellent cancer research unit at Bangor University, and they spoke so positively about the new medical school in north Wales where they've been training doctors up. So, I've just got a short question, really, to the Cabinet Secretary: would this have an impact on that in no…
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10 February 2026
Named by Siân Gwenllian in the Senedd
…herefore putting the university's future at risk. This shows that Reform is not fit to govern and Reform doesn't understand my constituency. Bangor University is one of the major employers in the area, providing employment to hundreds, to local electricians and lecturers who train the doctors and nu…
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10 February 2026
Named by Siân Gwenllian in the Senedd
Trefnydd, could you ask the Minister for higher education to make an urgent statement about the disgraceful comments made by Reform about Bangor University? The head of policy for Reform UK, Zia Yusuf, has said this in talking about the funding of Bangor University: Trefnydd, fedrwch chi ofyn i'r Gw…
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10 February 2026
Named by Laura Anne Jones in the Senedd
…is a new one. Trefnydd, I'm calling for a statement from your Government following a decision made by the debating and political society at Bangor University to refuse a request from a Reform UK representative to take part in a Q&A, and in their statement using loaded and hateful language, such as…
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Trustees

18 trustees run the charity.

Marian Wyn JonesChairAppointed 9 February 2018
Dr Aled Llion JonesAppointed 27 November 2023
Dr Ian James ReesAppointed 1 September 2019
Dr Jean White CBE OStJAppointed 1 November 2021
Dr John Thomas PrabhakarAppointed 1 April 2024
Elin WynAppointed 28 November 2022
Emily ReesAppointed 29 September 2023
Eric Douglas HepburnAppointed 1 November 2020
Harry George Samuel PolleyAppointed 1 July 2026
Meleri ThomasAppointed 1 July 2025
Peter WaziriAppointed 1 May 2025
Professor Andrew Christopher EdwardsAppointed 25 November 2024
Professor Edmund BurkeAppointed 1 September 2022
Professor Raluca Luria RadulescuAppointed 1 November 2025
Professor Stephen William DoughtyAppointed 1 November 2025
Professor Timothy WheelerAppointed 6 May 2022
Rheon TomosAppointed 29 September 2023
Ross Oliver GriffithsAppointed 1 July 2026

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Filing record

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

When each year's annual return and accounts were due and received
Year ending	Due	Annual return	Accounts
31 July 2025	31 May 2026	Received 21 May 2026, 10 days early	Received 1 June 2026
31 July 2024	31 May 2025	Received 28 May 2025, 3 days early	Received 28 May 2025
31 July 2023	31 May 2024	Received 24 May 2024, 7 days early	Received 24 May 2024
31 July 2022	31 May 2023	Received 24 May 2023, 7 days early	Received 24 May 2023
31 July 2021	31 May 2022	Received 27 May 2022, 4 days early	Received 27 May 2022

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

About this charity

Charity number: 1141565
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 21 April 2011
Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER, FIRST GRANTED 4 JUNE 1885, AND AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS AND OTHER AMENDMENTS, AND SUPPORTED BY STATUTES
Website: www.bangor.ac.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.
Council area of its contact address: Gwynedd

Sources

Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

Elsewhere in the Edau family

Year ending

Income

Spending

Paid staff

Volunteers

31 July 2025

£160,358,000

£176,808,000

1,597

Not reported

31 July 2024

£170,118,000

£141,256,000

1,656

Not reported

31 July 2023

£177,704,000

£171,985,000

1,703

Not reported

31 July 2022

£163,249,000

£200,296,000

1,641

205

31 July 2021

£153,368,000

£154,917,000

1,592

Year ending

Government grants

Government contracts

31 July 2025

£3,728,000 from 6 grants

£9,488,000 from 35 contracts

31 July 2024

Not reported

£11,925,332 from 21 contracts

31 July 2023

£2,433,000 from 6 grants

£11,272,934 from 22 contracts

31 July 2022

£12,443,000 from 14 grants

Not reported

31 July 2021

£10,905,000 from 14 grants

Not reported

Funder

Type

Jul 2025

Jul 2024

Jul 2023

Medr

Other public body

£14,516,000

UK Government

£11,937,000

UK Research and Innovation

UK Government

£4,390,000

Welsh Government

£3,105,000

£2,145,000

£2,433,000

UK industry & commerce

Trust, company or other

£2,227,000

Research Wales Innovation Fund

Trust, company or other

£1,999,000

UK charities

Trust, company or other

£1,271,000

Welsh Medium Initiatives

Trust, company or other

£994,000

Degree Apprenticeships

Trust, company or other

£927,000

Research Capital

Trust, company or other

£865,000

Mentoring Project

Trust, company or other

£571,000

Better Mental Health

Trust, company or other

£263,000

Regional Innovation Fund

Trust, company or other

£245,000

Institutional Science Partnerships Fund

Trust, company or other

£224,000

PGT Masters

Trust, company or other

£171,000

HE & FE Collaboration

Trust, company or other

£124,000

Higher Education Funding Council for Wales

Other public body

£19,226,000

£22,085,000

Funder

Year ending

Amount

Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

31 March 2025

£806,374

Cancer Research Wales

31 March 2026

£246,073

Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

31 March 2024

£901,789

Cancer Research Wales

31 March 2025

£100,000

Awarded

Grant

Amount

8 Sept 2025

Garfield Weston FoundationMulti-Year Grant (2 Years) award

£30,000

24 Mar 2025

The National Lottery Community FundHedfan / Fly - Dance for Parkinson's

£19,980

3 Jun 2024

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"#COED2 Restoration and Reinvigoration of Maritime Woodland at Treborth Botanic Garden"

£17,853

8 Jun 2022

Nuffield FoundationGrant to Bangor University

£360,482

7 Apr 2022

Nuffield FoundationGrant to Bangor University

£198,377

19 Sept 2019

The National Lottery Community FundYn Y Foment

£99,361

6 Sept 2018

Nuffield FoundationJustice grant

£113,333

6 Aug 2018

Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsGrant SEFLOS contribution

£2,800

1 Jul 2018

Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsGrant: Darwin Scoping Projects DARSC188 Developing community capacity for sustainable marine aquaculture in Vanuatu

£5,750

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Forecasting biodiversity losses in Wallacea from ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes.

£297,300

Awarded

Grant

Amount

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySafe Biodegradable Packaging (SafeBioPack)

£667,317

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyUltra-Stable High-Performance Nanolasers

£389,956

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyReal-time in situ sensing of soil nitrogen status to promote enhanced nitrogen use efficiency in agricultural systems

£316,602

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Microbial hitch-hikers of marine plastics: the survival, persistence & ecology of microbial communities in the Plastisphere

£489,170

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Spatial Audio in Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies

£15,132

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - MobilES - Using mobile-phone technology to capture ecosystem service information

£218,798

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Breaking the Barriers to Soil Testing on Pastures (Breaking-STEP)

£229,099

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Graphene Compostable Barrier Packaging (GraCoPack)

£55,991

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Artificial Light Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems (ALICE)

£648,227

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - UK-China Agritech Challenge Zero-Waste Agricultural Mulch Films for Crops in China (ZEWAMFI)

£398,751

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Primary productivity driven by escalating nutrient fluxes?

£215,769

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Emotional AI: Comparative Considerations for UK and Japan across Commercial, Political and Security Sectors

£50,288

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Improving Methods of Characterising Resource, Interactions and Conditions (METRIC)

£287,382

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Light Actuated Microrobots

£630,326

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Can phenotypic plasticity and DNA methylation promote adaptive radiation?

£53,179

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Development and evaluation of an integrated early childhood development and violence prevention teacher-training intervention in Jamaican preschools

£180,852

27 Oct 2017

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"From Curig to Castle – Exploring the Communities of the Ogwen Valley"

£10,000

1 Jul 2017

Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsDARSC176 Darwin Initiative 23 Scoping

£865

1 May 2017

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySustainable futures for the Costa Rica dairy sector: optimising environmental and economic outcomes

£220,032

1 Apr 2017

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs24-009 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main

£102,711

15 Jun 2011

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"The Meillionydd Project"

£5,900

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 July 2025

31 May 2026

Received 21 May 2026, 10 days early

Received 1 June 2026

31 July 2024

31 May 2025

Received 28 May 2025, 3 days early

Received 28 May 2025

31 July 2023

31 May 2024

Received 24 May 2024, 7 days early

Received 24 May 2024

31 July 2022

31 May 2023

Received 24 May 2023, 7 days early

Received 24 May 2023

31 July 2021

31 May 2022

Received 27 May 2022, 4 days early

Received 27 May 2022