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Registered charity · London

The British Society for Surgery of the Hand

The objects for which the Society is established are: (a) to optimise treatments and outcomes for patients with hand related pathology or injury;(b) to promote the prevention of hand related injuries and pathologies;(c) to advance and direct the...

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Cambodia and more
Website
www.bssh.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The British Society for Surgery of the Hand
Registered
1975

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£856k£967k
  • 2021£904k£865k
Charitable objects

The objects for which the Society is established are: (a) to optimise treatments and outcomes for patients with hand related pathology or injury;(b) to promote the prevention of hand related injuries and pathologies;(c) to advance and direct the development of Hand Surgery;(d) to foster and co-ordinate education, study and research in Hand Surgery and to disseminate the knowledge of Hand Surgery among members of the Society, the Medical Profession and the general public.

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.

16 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

Portfolio (1)

16
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 16General Charitable Purposes 16The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 16

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 18Health and social care 9Transport 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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.3m 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.

21.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 34.4 in 2021

10 from 8 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
268396
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28 MAY 1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 OCT 1997NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 03 NOV 2005NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16 DEC 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 NOV 2022 as amended on 13 Oct 2022 as amended on 13 Oct 2022 as amended on 14 Nov 2024
Companies House
Company number 01213983 · Active
Contact on the register
02078315162 · secretariat@bssh.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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