The Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
The Science & Technology
Facilities Council is an independent, non-departmental public body
of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS),
and is one of seven national research
councils in the UK. STFC has a budget of ~£530 million per
annum and employs more than 2,200 staff in
7 locations, one of which is the Daresbury Laboratory, part of the
Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus.
Through the presence of the Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury
SIC represents the northern end of a 200km science axis that has
the STFC's Harwell Science & Innovation Campus at its southern
end. Known as the 'Dipole' this axis opens up a national and
international network of scientific resources, expertise and
facilities.
Daresbury Laboratory operates alongside the Cockcroft
Institute and the Daresbury Innovation Centre
as one of the three campus partners and STFC is one of the six
founder stakeholders in the Daresbury Science & Innovation
Campus alongside Halton Borough Council,
the Northwest
Regional Development Agency and the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester.
Below are a number of fact sheets: