01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 19 September 2023
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Latest income
- £54,416
- Latest expenditure
- £26,611
- Gift Aid
- No
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: 32 Brooklands Road, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, Lancashire, FY8 4BW
Website recorded by the regulator: https://www.odysseaninstitute.org (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
We research existential and catastrophic risks, and prepare decision making experiments to contribute to improved policymaking by the public and experts around these.
03 Official extract
Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 April 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 March 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 January 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 27 January 2026
- Date Accounts Received
- 27 January 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £54,416
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £26,611
- Fin Period Start Date
- 19 September 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 March 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 January 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 26 December 2024
- Date Accounts Received
- 26 December 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £13,288
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £9,943
04 Official extract
Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 April 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 March 2025
- Ar Due Date
- 31 January 2026
- Ar Received Date
- 27 January 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £54,416
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £26,611
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- Yes
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- Yes
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 6
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 19 September 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 March 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 31 January 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 26 December 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £13,288
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £9,943
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- Yes
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- Yes
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 5
05 Official extract
Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Belgium
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Germany
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Taiwan
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Asia
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Netherlands
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- France
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Brazil
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- South America
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- United States
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- North America
- Welsh Ind
- No
06 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 307
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Classification Code
- 308
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Classification Code
- 102
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Education/training
- Classification Code
- 113
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
07 Official extract
Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- ODYSSEAN INSTITUTE
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2023-09-19T00:00:00
08 Official extract
Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 19 Sep 2023
- Charitable Objects
- THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE FIELD OF EXISTENTIAL RISK AND GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ADDING TO THE COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF SPECIFIC AREAS OF STUDY AND EXPERTISE IN THIS FIELD BY:A. CONDUCTING RESEARCH AND MODELLING AROUND THE RISKS OF CIVILISATIONAL COLLAPSE;B. RUNNING EXPERIMENTS AROUND THE PROCESSES OF DECISION-MAKING MECHANISMS AND FRAMEWORKS; ANDC. ESTABLISHING CITIZEN ASSEMBLIES THROUGH WHICH THE CHARITY’S RESEARCH AND FINDINGS MAY BE DELIBERATED AND THROUGH WHICH THE GENERAL PUBLIC MAY BE EDUCATED AND GAIN GREATER UNDERSTANDING AND INSIGHTS. IN ALL CASES PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, EXISTENTIAL RISK AND GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISK REFER TO RISKS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THREATS ARISING FROM ECOLOGICAL (INCLUDING SOLAR FLARES, MAJOR ASTEROID IMPACT, SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, EXTREME CLIMATE CHANGE, AND ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE), TECHNOLOGICAL (NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NANOTECHNOLOGY, AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY) AND SOCIAL (BAD GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, GLOBAL SYSTEMS COLLAPSE, AND GLOBAL DEMOCRATIC RETREAT) FACTORS, AND THE INHERENT CONNECTIONS AND INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN THESE FACTORS.
09 Official extract
Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Paying staff
- Policy Name
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures