Registered charity · Shaftesbury
The Scientific Exploration Society
- 7 trustees
- Income £185k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia and more
- Website
- www.ses-explore.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Scientific Exploration Society
- Registered
- 1974
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£185k£165k
- 2024£137k£134k
- 2023£148k£118k
Earlier years
- 2022£96k£124k
- 2021£47k£67k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE ORGANISE OR SUPPORT (WHETHER FINANCIALLY OR OTHERWISE) EXPEDITIONS FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE UNDER-DEVELOPED REGIONS OF THE EARTH FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE OF, OR RESEARCH INTO, OR FOR THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATING INDIVIDUALS IN, THE GEOGRAPHY, GEODESY GEOPHYSICS, HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS TOGETHER WITH THE TOPOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY, METEOROLOGY, BOTANY, ZOOLOGY, HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND GLACIOLOGY OF THE SAID REGIONS AND ALLIED SUBJECTS RELATING THERETO AND, WHERE INCIDENTAL TO SUCH EXPEDITIONS, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE THE POVERTY AND SICKNESS OF THE PEOPLE IN SUCH REGIONS.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Peter Felix CBE Chair since 2017
- Barbara Jeffrey
- Briony Deborah Turner since 2017
- David Zeitlin since 2018
- Diane Allen OBE since 2016
- Jeremy Peter Fish since 2024
- Trevor Moss since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Peter Felix CBE Chair since 2017
- Briony Deborah Turner since 2017
- David Zeitlin since 2018
- Diane Allen OBE since 2016
- Trevor Moss since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Peter Felix CBE Chair since 2017
- Barbara Jeffrey
- Briony Deborah Turner since 2017
- David Zeitlin since 2018
- Diane Allen OBE since 2016
- Trevor Moss since 2017
Portfolio (1)
- Jeremy Peter Fish since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 267410
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13TH NOVEMBER 1973 AS AMENDED 19 APRIL 1998, 30 APRIL 2003 AND 27 APRIL 2005.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/03/2015
- Companies House
- Company number 01145214 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01747 853353
- 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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