How we are funded

The Science and Technology Facilities Council is an independent, non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS).

As such, the majority of our funding is public money from DBIS, allocated through the Comprehensive Spending Review (link opens in a new window).

For 2009-10, STFC’s allocation is £491 million for near-cash (this was called "resource" or "recurrent" expenditure previously and is the element of funding not tied to capital or depreciation etc). STFC also receives a capital allocation from government for investment in infrastructure or assets.

STFC receives additional funding from a variety of other sources, including the other Research Councils, the European Space Agency (link opens in a new window), the European Commission (link opens in a new window) and industry.