Registered charity · Brentford

The British Fertility Society

9 trustees
Income £309k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where: Throughout England, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website: www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: British Fertility Society Limited
Registered: 1999

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£309k£167k
2024£355k£169k
2023£146k£143k

Earlier years

2022£137k£143k
2021£278k£240k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF BURSARIES AND TRAVEL GRANTS FOR THE ACADEMIC OR RESEARCH PURPOSES IN RELATION TO THE STUDY AND TREATMENT OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION INCLUDING INFERTILITY, CONTRACEPTION AND EARLY PREGNANCY FAILURE, AND GENERALLY TO FUND SUCH RESEARCH AND TO PUBLISH, DISSEMINATE AND TURN TO PUBLIC ACCOUNT FINDINGS OR KNOWLEDGE IN THIS FIELD.

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.

9 trustees on the board

5.1y median 5y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Alison Rhoda Mctavish since 2019
Adam Balen since 2019
Karen Louise Woodcock since 2020
Sarah Norcross since 2019

17.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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 15Health and social care 4Tech and media 2

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

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incomespending£309k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1075661
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 28 APRIL 1999 as amended on 10 Jan 2020 as amended on 24 Jan 2022
Companies House: Company number 03761793 · Active
Contact on the register: 02037255849 · bfs@profileproductions.co.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 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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