Registered charity · London
Society for the History of Natural History
- 11 trustees
- Income £17k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Jack Daniel David AshbyChair · since 2024
- Dr Geraldine ReidTrustee · since 2019
- Dr Malgosia Nowak-KempTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Nathan SmithTrustee · since 2022
- Elaine ShaughnessyTrustee · since 2021
- Joshua Luke DavisTrustee · since 2025
- Maggie ReillyTrustee · since 2018
- Professor Dolores JorgensenTrustee · since 2026
- Professor Helen CowieTrustee · since 2021
- William Clifford John BeharrellTrustee · since 2022
- William NoblettTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.shnh.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1962
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£17k£14k
- 2024£16k£15k
- 2023£13k£15k
Earlier years
- 2022£11k£8k
- 2021£14k£11k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE SOCIETY IS INSTITUTED FOR THE HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF ALL BRANCHES OF NATURAL HISTORY, INCLUDING THEIR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS, ACROSS ALL CULTURES.
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Jack Daniel David Ashby Chair since 2024
- Dr Geraldine Reid since 2019
- Dr Malgosia Nowak-Kemp since 2021
- Dr Nathan Smith since 2022
- Elaine Shaughnessy since 2021
- Joshua Luke Davis since 2025
- Maggie Reilly since 2018
- Professor Dolores Jorgensen since 2026
- Professor Helen Cowie since 2021
- William Noblett
- William Clifford John Beharrell since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Geraldine Reid since 2019
- Maggie Reilly since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Dr Geraldine Reid since 2019
- Dr Malgosia Nowak-Kemp since 2021
- Dr Nathan Smith since 2022
- Elaine Shaughnessy since 2021
- Joshua Luke Davis since 2025
- Maggie Reilly since 2018
- Professor Dolores Jorgensen since 2026
- Professor Helen Cowie since 2021
- William Noblett
- William Clifford John Beharrell since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Jack Daniel David Ashby Chair since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on 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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 210355
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- BYE-LAWS OF THE SOCIETY FOUNDED IN 1936, AS AMENDED 28TH MARCH 1983, 18TH MARCH 1988, 23RD JUNE 2000, 26 APRIL 2002 AND 15 MAY 2010 AS AMENDED ON 23 MAR 2021AS AMENDED ON 23 MAR 2021
- Contact on the register
- 0141 330 2194 · secretary@shnh.org.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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