The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Registered charity 213811 Registered since 1963

Operates: Cambridgeshire

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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.

2.8y median 2.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance
3
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 19Amateur Sport 1Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1Other Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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.

Education 7Business services 1Other services 1

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£988k 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.

14.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 12.1 in 2020

9 from 8 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitehttp://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
Emailphilosoc@group.cam.ac.uk
Phone01223334743
Address17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX

Finances

£987,925 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£759,225£664,109
2021£794,952£668,312
2022£823,507£683,913
2023£874,974£629,232
2024£987,925£882,728

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To Individuals

Charitable objects

PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY AND PUBLICATION OF RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER 6 AUGUST 1832

Trustees (19)

19trustees
71median age
2aged 70+

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