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The Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £932k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.psa.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£932k£910k
  • 2024£996k£868k
  • 2023£863k£618k
Earlier years
  • 2022£807k£650k
  • 2021£756k£609k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL STUDIES AND TO ENCOURAGE EDUCATION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT AND IN OTHER BRANCHES OF THE POLITICAL SCIENCES

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.

12 trustees on the board

2.1y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 12

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

Other services 12Education 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£996k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

38.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 38.8 in 2020

8 from 7 in 2020
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
1071825
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 SEPTEMBER 1998, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS 10 APRIL 2001 AND 31 MARCH 2010 as amended on 16 Apr 2025
Companies House
Company number 03628986 · Active
Contact on the register
02073212545 · info@psa.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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