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Registered charity · London

The Biochemical Society

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £4.8m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Albania, Argentina, Australia and more
Website
www.biochemistry.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Biochemical Society
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4.8m£4.0m
  • 2023£4.7m£4.8m
  • 2022£4.8m£4.7m
Earlier years
  • 2021£4.4m£4.8m
  • 2020£4.9m£4.3m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND THE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES IN GENERAL

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.

1.5y median 1.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.3y
average years in governance
5
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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 9General 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.

Other services 5Tech and media 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.8m 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.

34.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 33.4 in 2020

43 from 41 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
253894
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/11/1966AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/07/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/07/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/07/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/09/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/09/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/05/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 JUL 2016 as amended on 14 Mar 2019 as amended on 25 Jul 2019 as amended on 21 Mar 2022 as amended on 10 Jul 2025
Companies House
Company number 00892796 · Active
Contact on the register
02038802793
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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