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UK Biobank Limited

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1101332
Status
Registered
Registered
Dec. 30, 2003
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
National

Address

Address
UK Biobank Ltd
Unit 1-2
Spectrum Way
Stockport
SK3 0SA

Contact

Activities

To provide a major genetic resource to assist scientists with research into a variety of diseases and illnesses.

Objects: The Objects For Which The Company Is Established Are To Protect, Preserve And Advance All Or Any Aspects Of The Health And Welfare Of Human Beings And To Advance And Promote Knowledge And Education By Engaging In, Encouraging And Supporting: 1) Investigations Into The Separate And Combined Effects Of Genetic, Environmental (Including Lifestyle, Physiological And Environmental Exposures) And Other Factors On Human Health And Welfare And On The Risk And Causation Of Diseases In The Human Population; (2) The Establishment, Holding, Operation, Management, Promotion, Support, Expansion, Improvement And Safeguarding Of A Collection Of Biomedical, Biochemical, Epidemiological, Genetic And Other Data And Blood And Other Biological And Biochemical Samples Obtained And Developed Through, For The Purpose Of And/or In Connection With Some Or All Of The Investigations Referred To In Paragraph (1) And Pertaining To A Cohort Of Human Participants ("Data And Samples"), For Use In A Research, Knowledge And Information Resource Provisionally Known As The UK Biobank ("The Resource");(3) Research Into Biological And Medical Sciences And Other Disciplines Which May Contribute To The Improvement Of Human Health And Welfare("the Biosciences"); (4) The Discovery, Invention, Improvement, Development And Application Of Treatments, Cures, Diagnostics And Other Medicinal Agents, Methods And Processes That May In Any Way Relieve Illness, Disease, Disability Or Disorders Of Whatever Nature In Human Beings; And (5) The Study And Understanding Of Any Of The Biosciences.

Classification

How
Sponsors Or Undertakes Research, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
What
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who
The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Country
Scotland
Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
Sept. 30, 2024 £76,327,574 £30,600,212 £48,609,701 282
Sept. 30, 2023 £34,535,326 £32,137,047 £2,882,339 228
Sept. 30, 2022 £40,636,042 £38,926,812 £13,170,185 378
Sept. 30, 2021 £62,733,234 £63,621,531 £11,460,955 412
Sept. 30, 2020 £35,193,599 £39,174,728 £12,349,252 250

Trustees

Name Appointed
Lord Ajay Kumar Kakkar (Chair) Jan. 1, 2020
Bernard Taylor Jan. 19, 2024
Dr Anthony Wood Dec. 1, 2025
Dr Ceri Louise Williams June 26, 2025
Nicola Perrin June 1, 2022
Professor Sir Alex Markham March 24, 2017
Professor Dame Nancy Jane Rothwell Sept. 17, 2021
Professor Melinda Catherine Mills June 1, 2024
Professor Sir Michael Ferguson June 1, 2022