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.