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Heriot-Watt University

A Registered Charity based in Scotland

This organisation's identifier is GB-SC-SC000278 .
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Description

The University shall engage in, and promote, original research and shall be a teaching, examining and awarding body. Its objects shall be to advance education, knowledge and wisdom by research, knowledge exchange, scholarship, learning and teaching, for the benefit of individuals and society at large (hereinafter called 'the Objects').

OSCR Charity number

SC000278

Registered

Postcode

EH14 4AS

Website

hw.ac.uk

Latest income

£260,621,000 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download published by Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.

Heriot-Watt University

GB-SC-SC000278

Locations

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Registered Office in the UK

Heriot-Watt University

GB-SC-SC000278

Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

Activities (OSCR)

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Beneficiaries (OSCR)

  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups

Purposes (OSCR)

  • The advancement of education

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Colleges and universities B21

UK Charity Activity Tags

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  • Education ED
  • Education ED » Higher education ED103
  • Education ED » Student support ED105
  • Research RS

Heriot-Watt University

GB-SC-SC000278

Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
1934-01-15 Registered as a charity
2017-07-31 221,218,000 228,110,000
2018-07-31 228,303,000 220,948,000
2019-07-31 237,349,000 265,903,000
2020-07-31 230,690,000 222,476,000
2021-07-31 235,069,000 232,870,000
2022-07-31 260,621,000 295,343,000
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Heriot-Watt University

GB-SC-SC000278

Grants received

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Received 71 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
Foundation Scotland
George and Grace Thomson Trust
£5,000
4 years
Grant to Heriot-Watt University
Nov 2022 to Nov 2026
Foundation Scotland
George and Grace Thomson Trust
£4,000
4 years
Grant to Heriot-Watt University
Nov 2022 to Nov 2026
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALB - UKRI - EPSRC grant awards in 20-21
£974,287 Ultra-short pulsed laser welding - an industrially-relevant manufacturing tool for bonding IR and visible optical materials
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALB - UKRI - EPSRC grant awards in 20-21
£370,749 Bayesian computation for low-photon imaging
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALB - UKRI - EPSRC grant awards in 20-21
£251,815 Boosting power efficiency of physical-layer secured MIMO communications
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALB - UKRI - AHRC grant awards in 20-21
£363,730 Rejuvenation of the Heritage Science Lab at Heriot Watt University
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALB - UKRI - EPSRC grant awards in 20-21
£254,576 Robust Multimodal Fusion For Low-Level Tasks
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALB - UKRI - Innovate UK grant awards in 20-21
£129,585 Heriot-Watt University and Brewster Brothers Limited
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALB - UKRI - EPSRC grant awards in 20-21
£524,400 A Joined-up Approach for New Molecular Simulation Technologies To Harness Ultrafast Photochemistry
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALB - UKRI - NERC grant awards in 20-21
£3,559,126 Sources, Sinks and Solutions for Impacts of Plastics on Coastal Communities in Viet Nam

Data source

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Heriot-Watt University

GB-SC-SC000278

Data sources

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Office of Scottish Charity Regulator

Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download

Last fetched from source: 2024-03-21

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