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Registered charity · London

Academy of Medical Sciences

  • 20 trustees
  • Income £27m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
acmedsci.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£27m£25m
  • 2024£20m£19m
  • 2023£19m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£18m£14m
  • 2021£15m£15m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 73%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE AIMS AND ETHOS OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR TO:(A) PROMOTE EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AND IN THE TEACHING OF MEDICAL SCIENCES;(B) PROMOTE THE APPLICATION OF RESEARCH TO THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN HEALTH AND WELFARE;(C) PROMOTE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES AND THEIR IMPACT ON SOCIETY; AND(D) ASSESS ISSUES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE OF CONCERN TO THE PUBLIC AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH ASSESSMENT.

Grants received

10 grants · £36,887,521 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £26,554,321 (7 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £9,377,200
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £956,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £12,475,4542022-03-31
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £12,485,0002022-03-31
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £261,1002022-02-03
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £425,4272022-02-03
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £81,3402022-02-03
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.

1.9y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.6y
average years in governance
1
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 20The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 20Arts/culture/heritage/science 19The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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£27.0m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

6.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.4 in 2021

96 from 51 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
1185329
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 03 SEP 2019
Contact on the register
02031413200 · info@acmedsci.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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