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Registered charity · London

Society of Chemical Industry

  • 19 trustees
  • Income £4.4m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.soci.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4.4m£4.3m
  • 2023£3.8m£3.9m
  • 2022£2.9m£3.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.6m£3.0m
  • 2020£2.9m£3.1m
Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY AND RELATED SCIENCES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

19 trustees on the board

3.2y median 2y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (17)

Portfolio (2)

0
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 19Other Charitable Purposes 19

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • 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£4.4m 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.

21.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 27.9 in 2020

34 from 36 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
206883
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 17 JUN 1907AS AMENDED ON 01 APR 1986AS AMENDED ON 25 NOV 1991AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 13 JUN 2007AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 14 DEC 2011AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 21 JUL 2021
Contact on the register
02075981511 · accounts@soci.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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