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The London Mathematical Society

The London Mathematical Society is a registered charity (number 252660) based in London, governed by 20 trustees. Latest income £4.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

20 trustees
Income £4.0m (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Where: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil and more
Website: www.lms.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1967

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£4.0m£3.7m
2024£3.5m£3.2m
2023£3.1m£2.7m

Earlier years

2022£2.9m£2.3m
2021£3.1m£2.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND EXTEND MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE.

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.

20 trustees on the board

Dr Amanda Georgina Turner since 2020
Dr Chris Bowman-Scargill since 2025
Dr David James Barnes since 2024
Dr Jessica Anne Enright since 2021
Dr Lassina Dembele since 2024
Dr Tania Clare Dunning since 2024
Professor Minhyong KIM since 2020
Professor Gregory Kumar Sankaran since 2023
Professor Iain Grant Gordon since 2019
Professor Jason Lotay since 2022
Professor Jelena Grbic since 2025
Professor Mark Andrew Joseph Chaplain since 2025
Professor Mary Mcalinden since 2023
Professor Niall James Mackay since 2020
Professor Peter Brian Ashwin since 2020
Professor Sara Lombardo since 2021
Professor Sarah Whitehouse since 2022
Professor Shabnam Behesthi since 2025
Professor Simon Montague Salamon since 2020
dr Andrew David Brooke-Taylor since 2023

3.7y median 3.5y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Professor Iain Grant Gordon since 2019

4.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (20)

Dr Amanda Georgina Turner since 2020
Dr Chris Bowman-Scargill since 2025
Dr David James Barnes since 2024
Dr Jessica Anne Enright since 2021
Dr Lassina Dembele since 2024
Dr Tania Clare Dunning since 2024
Professor Minhyong KIM since 2020
Professor Gregory Kumar Sankaran since 2023
Professor Iain Grant Gordon since 2019
Professor Jason Lotay since 2022
Professor Jelena Grbic since 2025
Professor Mark Andrew Joseph Chaplain since 2025
Professor Mary Mcalinden since 2023
Professor Niall James Mackay since 2020
Professor Peter Brian Ashwin since 2020
Professor Sara Lombardo since 2021
Professor Sarah Whitehouse since 2022
Professor Shabnam Behesthi since 2025
Professor Simon Montague Salamon since 2020
dr Andrew David Brooke-Taylor since 2023

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 20

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 1Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£4.0m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

71.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 97.3 in 2021

15 from 18 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: 252660
Status: Registered
Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER DATED 3 AUGUST 1965 AND SCHEME OF 10 MAY 1978 AND 8TH APRIL 1992
Contact on the register: 02072919970 · lms@lms.ac.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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