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The British Institute of Radiology

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.bir.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.4m
  • 2024£2.0m£2.2m
  • 2023£2.2m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.0m£1.9m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF RADIOLOGY, RADIOBIOLOGY AND THE MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS AND STUDY OF KINDRED SCIENCES. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS, SEE C1. 2 (A) TO (F) OF CHARTER)

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.

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (4)

2
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 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 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.

Health and social care 2Other services 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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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£2.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

25.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.6 in 2021

20 from 20 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
215869
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION SEALED ON 21/3/58 AS AMENDED ON 9/2/93 AND BY-LAWS ADOPTED ON 21/12/59 AS AMENDED ON 8/5/74, 11/12/78, 20/1/82, 21/12/92, 9/2/93, 12/11/93 AND 2/11/94 AND 11 APRIL 2006 as amended on 11 Nov 2015
Contact on the register
02036682220 · bir.finance@bir.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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