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Royal Microscopical Society

Royal Microscopical Society is a registered charity (number 241990) based in Oxford, governed by 28 trustees and chaired by Professor Rik Drummond-Brydson since 2023. Latest income £2.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 28 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)
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Also 3 organisations acting as trustee: Dr Kerry Thompson, Professor Andy Brown, Professor Maddy Parsons.

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

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.rms.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE BY SUCH MEANS AS THE DISCUSSION AND PULBICATION OF RESEARCH INTO IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MODE OF APPLICATION OF MICROSCOPES AND INTO THOSE BRACHES OF SCIENCE WHERE MICROSCOPY IS IMPORTANT.

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.

25 trustees on the board

1.9y median 1y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

  • Dr Kerry Thompson since 2018
  • Professor Michelle Peckham since 2011
  • Professor Andy Brown since 2018
  • Professor Maddy Parsons since 2017
2.2y
average years in governance
0
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 25Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£1.7m 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.

35.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 44.2 in 2020

15 from 15 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
241990
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 28TH AUGUST 1867 AND BY-LAWS AS AMENDED FEBRUARY 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 15TH MAY 1980 AND 21ST MAY 1984, AMENDED 3 JULY 2000 as amended on 03 Jul 2019 And Royal Charter granted on 23 Jan 2023as amended by an Order in Council on 23 Jan 2023
Contact on the register
01865254760 · info@rms.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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