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Registered charity · London

The Physiological Society

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £4.8m (2024)
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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, Accommodation/housing, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 1 more
Where
City Of Westminster, Islington
Website
www.physoc.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Physiological Society
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4.8m£3.7m
  • 2023£4.3m£3.9m
  • 2022£4.2m£4.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£4.1m£3.8m
  • 2020£4.5m£3.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY AND TO FACILITATE THE INTERCOURSE OF PHYSIOLOGISTS, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD AND THEREBY CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROGRESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF BIO-MEDICAL AND RELATED SCIENCES AND THE DETECTION,PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE, DISABILITY AND MALFUNCTION OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN ALL FORMS OF LIFE.

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.

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.3y
average years in governance
9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 11Education/training 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 9Professional services 6Education 2

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£4.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

16.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.7 in 2020

23 from 25 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
211585
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/01/1937AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/03/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/06/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/07/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/12/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/07/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/07/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/03/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 13/07/2011 as amended on 31 Jul 2016 as amended on 10 Dec 2019 as amended on 10 Dec 2019
Companies House
Company number 00323575 · Active
Contact on the register
02072695720 · governance@physoc.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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