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UK Biobank Limited

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC039230
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed July 6, 2026. Filing history
Registered
Feb. 5, 2008
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
Units 1&2 Spectrum Way
Adswood
Stockport
Cheshire
SK3 0SA

Contact

Website
ukbiobank.ac.uk
Screenshot of the UK Biobank Limited website

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the advancement of health'

Beneficiaries: 'No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: 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: (i) 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. (ii) 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 andlor in connection with some or all of the investigations referred to in paragraph (i) 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'). (iii) research into biological and medical sciences and other disciplines which may contribute to the improvement of human health and welfare ('the Biosciences'). (iv) 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 (v) the study and understanding of any of the Biosciences.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
Sept. 30, 2025 July 6, 20266 days late £68,919,118 £47,285,014 319
Sept. 30, 2024 May 22, 2025On time £76,327,574 £30,600,212 258
Sept. 30, 2023 June 24, 2024On time £34,535,326 £32,137,047 228
Sept. 30, 2022 June 21, 2023On time £40,636,042 £38,926,812 366
Sept. 30, 2021 June 17, 2022On time £62,733,234 £63,621,531 412
Sept. 30, 2020 June 28, 2021 £35,193,599 £39,174,728 250

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.