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Registered charity (CIO) · Durham

The Palaeontological Association

  • 19 trustees
  • Income £439k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Argentina, Australia, Austria and more
Website
www.palass.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£439k£538k
  • 2024£589k£546k
  • 2023£465k£485k
Earlier years
  • 2022£394k£487k
  • 2021£399k£346k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PALAEONTOLOGY AND ITS ALLIED SCIENCES BY:1. PROMOTING RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF:2. HOLDING PUBLIC MEETINGS FOR THE READING OF ORIGINAL PAPERS AND THE DELIVERY OF LECTURES; 3. EXTENDING KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCIENCE THROUGH DEMONSTRATION AND PUBLICATION; 4. AWARDING GRANTS AND BURSARIES; AND5. BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE COUNCIL OF CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

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.

1.2y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2y
average years in governance
0
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 19Education/training 19Environment/conservation/heritage 19

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£589k 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.

20.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

2
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
1168330
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 20 Jul 2016 as amended on 29 Jan 2021
Contact on the register
01913861482 · palass@palass.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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