Registered charity · London

Architects Benevolent Society

12 trustees
Income £1.2m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Italy, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more
Website: www.absnet.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Architects Benevolent Society
Registered: 1973

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.2m£1.5m
2024£1.1m£2.5m
2023£1.3m£2.4m

Earlier years

2022£1.9m£2.1m
2021£1.1m£2.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS ENGAGED OR FORMERLY ENGAGED IN THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE SPOUSES, CIVIL PARTNERS, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, SURVIVING CIVIL PARTNERS, CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS BEING IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

12 trustees on the board

2.4y median 1y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

John Lindsay Moakes since 2017

6.3y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12

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 12Professional services 3Other services 2

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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£1.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.3 in 2021

10 from 12 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: 265139
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 DEC 1972AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 NOV 1973AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03 JUN 1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 SEP 1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 JUN 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 JUN 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 JUN 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 30 JUN 2015 as amended on 16 Jun 2021 as amended on 04 Jun 2025
Companies House: Company number 01084747 · Active
Contact on the register: 02075802823 · help@absnet.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 20th September 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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