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Registered charity · London

Institute of Biomedical Science

  • 20 trustees
  • Income £5.7m (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
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hong Kong
Website
www.ibms.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Institute of Biomedical Science
Registered
1970

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.7m£7.6m
  • 2024£4.0m£4.8m
  • 2023£5.9m£5.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.4m£4.4m
  • 2021£3.5m£3.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES.

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

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (20)

19
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.

Other services 19Business services 3Property 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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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£4.0m 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.

41.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 59.6 in 2020

34 from 30 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
261926
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/11/1942AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/06/1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/09/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/08/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/06/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/09/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/06/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/06/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/06/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/06/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 JUN 2016 as amended on 08 Jun 2019 as amended on 05 Jun 2021 as amended on 11 Jun 2022 as amended on 13 Jun 2026
Companies House
Company number 00377268 · Active
Contact on the register
02077130214 · mail@ibms.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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