The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The British Psychological Society

Registered charity 229642 Registered since 1962

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

14 trustees on the board

2.6y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Other Charitable Purposes 14Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 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 3Other services 2Professional 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£13.4m 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.

16.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.5 in 2020

133 from 131 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

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.bps.org.uk
Emailmail@bps.org.uk
Phone01162549568
AddressBRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ST. ANDREWS HOUSE, 48 PRINCESS ROAD EAST, LEICESTER, LE1 7DR

Finances

£13,390,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£10,839,000£14,009,000
2021£11,628,000£14,661,000
2022£11,561,000£14,632,000
2023£13,037,000£14,815,000
2024£13,390,000£12,664,000

What it does

What

Other Charitable Purposes

Who

Other Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

The objects of the Society shall be to promote the advancement and diffusion of a knowledge of psychology pure and applied and especially to promote the efficiency and usefulness of Members of the Society by setting up a high standard of professional education and knowledge. Nothing in these objects shall authorise an application of the property of the Society for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 26TH FEBRUARY 1965 AS AMENDED 18TH DECEMBER 1987, 18TH JULY 2001 AND 22ND OCTOBER 2002AS AMENDED ON 10 NOV 2010 as amended by an Order in Council on 19 Jul 2022

Trustees (14)

14trustees
63median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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