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Registered charity · London

The Genetics Society

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £530k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.genetics.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1970

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£530k£616k
  • 2023£577k£785k
  • 2022£601k£700k
Earlier years
  • 2021£565k£497k
  • 2020£618k£376k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE SOCIETY SHALL BE TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF GENETICS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

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.

11 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (5)

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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 11Education/training 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Environment/conservation/heritage 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£530k 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.

36.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 77.7 in 2020

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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
261062
Status
Registered
Governing document
RULES ADOPTED 25 MARCH 1970 AS AMENDED 22 MARCH 2002, 30 MARCH 2006 AND 30 MARCH 2007 AND BY SCHEME 6 SEPT 2004 as amended on 18 Nov 2022 as amended on 18 Nov 2022 as amended on 09 Nov 2023
Contact on the register
02039253672 · theteam@genetics.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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