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Company description
INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES(THE) is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 20 April 1966; registered for 60 years; registered office reported in BRIGHTON. Its primary declared activity is 74909 · Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c., with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 charity record, 7 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES(THE)
- Company number
- 00877338
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
1 September 2025Next statement due
15 September 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 44.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 25.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 5.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 12.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 45.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 63.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 79.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 82.0%
Earlier reporting years (4)
- 250 to 49923.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4999.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49915.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49910.0% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Contract 13326246: Scoping Study - Lidia Cabral - Institute of Development Studies to 30/9/25
University Of The West Of England · ocds-b5fd17-1768c980-1911-4279-96e7-400373277411
- Supplier named in award
- Institute of Development Studies
- Award value
- £39,933
- Contract period
- 15 January 2025 – 30 September 2025
- Published
- 26 February 2025
- Procedure
- Other - UWECONT
- Main CPV
- 80300000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1768c980-1911-4279-96e7-400373277411-2025-02-26T12:25:20Z
Strengthening Social Accountability for Biodiversity Net Gain
Natural England · ocds-b5fd17-b0b95add-1595-4b46-8ac2-5b0407b75671
- Supplier named in award
- INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (THE)
- Award value
- £49,991
- Contract period
- 9 July 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 23 September 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 73100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b0b95add-1595-4b46-8ac2-5b0407b75671-2024-09-23T11:35:49+01:00
PO 7435 - Evidence and Knowledge for Development - Amendment No 3
FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE · ocds-b5fd17-29657ef9-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b
- Supplier named in award
- Institute Of Development Studies
- Award value
- £830,390
- Contract period
- 14 September 2021 – 30 September 2022
- Published
- 8 October 2021
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 75211200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-29657ef9-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b-2021-10-08T10:46:52+01:00
PROJ10028 - Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research Contract Award
FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE · ocds-b5fd17-32e2e303-99ce-4b2e-86e7-bcebd0513981
- Supplier named in award
- Institute Of Development Studies
- Award value
- £9,936,270
- Contract period
- 19 October 2020 – 31 March 2024
- Published
- 16 December 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 75211200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-32e2e303-99ce-4b2e-86e7-bcebd0513981-2020-12-16T16:00:05Z
DFID 8566 Action on Children's Harmful Work in African Agriculture (ACHA) Contract Award
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT · ocds-b5fd17-91030600-6aa4-41be-ae4c-fad8b236a843
- Supplier named in award
- Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
- Award value
- £9,999,309
- Contract period
- 6 January 2020 – 5 January 2027
- Published
- 8 October 2019
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 75211200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-91030600-6aa4-41be-ae4c-fad8b236a843-2019-10-08T15:26:00+01:00
DFID 7195 Agriculture Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Contract Amendment No 2
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT · ocds-b5fd17-13701f9b-e21c-4dd3-b774-a2be2e4ea97a
- Supplier named in award
- INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES(THE)
- Award value
- £6,799,997
- Contract period
- 1 June 2016 – 31 May 2021
- Published
- 1 May 2020
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 75211200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-13701f9b-e21c-4dd3-b774-a2be2e4ea97a-2020-05-01T14:52:19+01:00
DFID 7239 Action for Empowerment & Accountability Research Programme (A4EA) Contract Amendment No 2
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT · ocds-b5fd17-239cf3bc-a72e-45e7-bb98-965176066b56
- Supplier named in award
- Institute Of Development Studies
- Award value
- £5,454,762
- Contract period
- 18 April 2016 – 31 July 2021
- Published
- 3 March 2020
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 75211200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-239cf3bc-a72e-45e7-bb98-965176066b56-2020-03-03T21:19:07Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 31 August 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
THE INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 13 June 1966
- Latest income
- £23,363,000
- Latest expenditure
- £26,919,000
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Education/training
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- The General Public/mankind
- Other Defined Groups
The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global institution for development research, teaching and learning, and impact and communications, based at the University of Sussex. IDS hosts numerous research clusters and postgraduate courses and a host of web-based knowledge services.
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07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Post-graduate level higher education
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.