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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Healthcare Infection Society

Healthcare Infection Society is a registered charity (number 1158172) based in London, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £1.7m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as HIS (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.his.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£915k£1.1m
  • 2021£885k£884k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF HIS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR AMONG MEDICAL AND ALLIED PROFESSIONALS IN THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF HOSPITAL AND OTHER HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL ASPECTS OF THAT SUBJECT AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS.

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

2.7y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
2.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

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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 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£1.7m latest income
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.

5.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2021

11 from 8 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
1158172
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION REGISTERED 08 AUG 2014AMENDED ON 27 APR 2017 as amended on 24 May 2018 as amended on 30 Nov 2018 as amended on 10 Nov 2020 as amended on 09 Nov 2021 as amended on 29 Jan 2026
Contact on the register
02077130273 · admin@his.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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