Registered charity · London
The Amateur Entomologists' Society
- 17 trustees
- Income £61k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Colin HartChair
- Christopher John HamiltonTrustee · since 2024
- Dafydd Vaughan LewisTrustee · since 2005
- Dr Andy ChickTrustee · since 2016
- Dr Beulah Hannah GarnerTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Erica McalisterTrustee · since 2018
- Dr Michael John NobleTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Victoria Jane BurtonTrustee · since 2013
- Jacqueline Mary RuffleTrustee
- Joseph GillsonTrustee · since 2023
- Nicholas Robert WadhamTrustee · since 2022
- Peter Hugh BrownTrustee · since 2015
- Peter John HodgeTrustee
- Prof. Edgar Clive TurnerTrustee · since 2024
- Ralph Nicholas HobbsTrustee · since 2013
- Rev Philip Delamere ReynoldsTrustee · since 2022
- Sophia Katarina ReinischTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.amentsoc.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1975
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£61k£64k
- 2023£50k£64k
- 2022£54k£53k
Earlier years
- 2021£42k£49k
- 2020£40k£39k
Charitable objects
THE PROMOTION AND DISSEMINATION OF ENTOMOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE BY EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT AMONG THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF AN INTEREST IN ENTOMOLOGY.
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.
17 trustees on the board
- Colin Hart Chair
- Christopher John Hamilton since 2024
- Dafydd Vaughan Lewis since 2005
- Dr Andy Chick since 2016
- Dr Beulah Hannah Garner since 2021
- Dr Erica Mcalister since 2018
- Dr Michael John Noble since 2023
- Dr Victoria Jane Burton since 2013
- Jacqueline Mary Ruffle
- Joseph Gillson since 2023
- Nicholas Robert Wadham since 2022
- Peter John Hodge
- Peter Hugh Brown since 2015
- Prof. Edgar Clive Turner since 2024
- Ralph Nicholas Hobbs since 2013
- Rev Philip Delamere Reynolds since 2022
- Sophia Katarina Reinisch since 2023
7.3y median 4.5y
average tenure
21y
longest tenure
Trustees past 6 years
- Dafydd Vaughan Lewis since 2005
- Dr Andy Chick since 2016
- Dr Erica Mcalister since 2018
- Dr Victoria Jane Burton since 2013
- Peter Hugh Brown since 2015
- Ralph Nicholas Hobbs since 2013
7.7y
average years in governance
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (13)
- Colin Hart Chair
- Christopher John Hamilton since 2024
- Dr Andy Chick since 2016
- Dr Beulah Hannah Garner since 2021
- Dr Erica Mcalister since 2018
- Dr Michael John Noble since 2023
- Dr Victoria Jane Burton since 2013
- Jacqueline Mary Ruffle
- Joseph Gillson since 2023
- Nicholas Robert Wadham since 2022
- Peter John Hodge
- Prof. Edgar Clive Turner since 2024
- Sophia Katarina Reinisch since 2023
Portfolio (4)
- Dafydd Vaughan Lewis since 2005
- Peter Hugh Brown since 2015
- Ralph Nicholas Hobbs since 2013
- Rev Philip Delamere Reynolds since 2022
3
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 17Arts/culture/heritage/science 16Animals 14Environment/conservation/heritage 3General 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 3Education 2Agriculture 1
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.
incomespending£61k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 267430
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 23 MAR 1974AS AMENDED ON 28 SEP 1974AS AMENDED ON 25 APR 1992AS AMENDED ON 26 APR 2003AS AMENDED ON 12 OCT 2019 as amended on 25 Sep 2021 as amended on 06 Jun 2025
- Contact on the register
- 07733444731 · contact@amentsoc.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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