THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD TO 31 March 2016 Tel: +44 (0) 300 770 1912 British Library Company number: 96 Euston Road 09512457 NW1 2DB Charity Number 1162533
[email protected] turing.ac.uk CONTENTS 04 Chair’s Foreword 05 Director’s Foreword 06 – 09 Trustees’ Report 10 – 22 Independent Auditors Report and Accounts Annual Report and Accounts 03 CHAIR’S FOREWORD formed a trading subsidiary and also Europe. This is a new source of risk for held interviews for our first cohort of all and has introduced an unexpected Turing research fellows. As I write this note of caution into our longer-term we are joined by thirty researchers plans. Like all organisations we for a summer programme and are will do our best to deal with the busily refurbishing space for the 120 consequences of this new uncertainty. or so researchers who will join us in the autumn at the start of our first full Starting the Institute has been academic year. enormously exciting and we are highly optimistic about what the This breathless pace could not Institute will achieve. We will work to have been sustained without achieve our vision to become a world enormous support from all concerned leader in data science research and throughout the UK data science innovation, and to be a great resource community. I would like to thank all for the UK’s data science community, of the colleagues who joined us on for its businesses and for its society secondment in the early months of more generally.