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Registered charity · London

Society of Genealogists

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £768k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.sog.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Society of Genealogists
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£768k£1.3m
  • 2024£811k£1.1m
  • 2023£805k£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.1m£1.4m
  • 2021£2.5m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER THE STUDY, SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE OF GENEALOGY BY ALL LAWFUL MEANS. SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION FOR FURTHER DETAILS

Grants received

1 grant · £152,400 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £152,400

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £152,4001996-08-13
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.

8 trustees on the board

2y median 1.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Education/training 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8

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 7Other services 1Professional 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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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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£811k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

71.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 19.4 in 2020

16 from 16 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
233701
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION AS AMENDED 1979 AND BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS 28/06/05, 30/06/09 & 25/06/13. as amended on 01 Dec 2021 as amended on 02 Jul 2022 as amended on 02 Jul 2022
Companies House
Company number 00115703 · Active
Contact on the register
02072518799 · hello@sog.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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