Registered charity · Cambridge

The Modern Humanities Research Association

22 trustees
Income £748k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: www.mhra.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Modern Humanities Research Association
Registered: 1997

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£748k£779k
2024£669k£774k
2023£709k£762k

Earlier years

2022£629k£824k
2021£652k£669k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE ADVANCED STUDY AND RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF THE MODERN HUMANITIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE FIELD OF MODERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES (INCLUDING ENGLISH).

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

22 trustees on the board

Professor Derek Frederick Connon Chair
Doctor Barbara Burns
Dr ANN Marie Lewis since 2013
Dr Adam Paul Lind Hansen since 2024
Dr Claire Noelle Moran since 2021
Dr Claudia Dellacasa since 2026
Dr Daniela Omlor since 2024
Dr Dora Elizabeth Osborne since 2024
Dr Guillem Colom-Montero since 2021
Dr Jane-Marie Collins since 2024
Dr Jessica Mary Goodman since 2022
Dr Richard Neil Adelman since 2024
Dr Sean Martin Williams since 2024
Dr Simon Rodway since 2015
Jeremy Francis Wong since 2016
Professor Ben Bollig since 2018
Professor Chloe Edwina Magdalen Paver
Professor Carolin Duttlinger since 2026
Professor Duncan Graham Wheeler since 2014
Professor Muireann Mary Maguire since 2021
Professor Simon Mark Dixon since 2020
Professor Susan Rose Harrow since 2025

4.8y median 4y

average tenure

13y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Dr ANN Marie Lewis since 2013
Dr Simon Rodway since 2015
Jeremy Francis Wong since 2016
Professor Ben Bollig since 2018
Professor Duncan Graham Wheeler since 2014

9.3y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (18)

Professor Derek Frederick Connon Chair
Doctor Barbara Burns
Dr ANN Marie Lewis since 2013
Dr Adam Paul Lind Hansen since 2024
Dr Claire Noelle Moran since 2021
Dr Claudia Dellacasa since 2026
Dr Dora Elizabeth Osborne since 2024
Dr Guillem Colom-Montero since 2021
Dr Jane-Marie Collins since 2024
Dr Jessica Mary Goodman since 2022
Dr Richard Neil Adelman since 2024
Dr Sean Martin Williams since 2024
Dr Simon Rodway since 2015
Jeremy Francis Wong since 2016
Professor Chloe Edwina Magdalen Paver
Professor Duncan Graham Wheeler since 2014
Professor Simon Mark Dixon since 2020
Professor Susan Rose Harrow since 2025

Portfolio (4)

Dr Daniela Omlor since 2024
Professor Ben Bollig since 2018
Professor Carolin Duttlinger since 2026
Professor Muireann Mary Maguire since 2021

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 22Education/training 22

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 19Education 1Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£748k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

25.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 28.8 in 2021

6 from 6 in 2021

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1064670
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/10/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11/11/2014 as amended on 12 Feb 2022
Companies House: Company number 03446016 · Active
Contact on the register: 01223845512 · mail@mhra.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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