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Registered charity · London

The British Geriatrics Society

The British Geriatrics Society is a registered charity (number 268762) based in London, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Professor Jugdeep Kaur Dhesi since 2022. Latest income £1.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as B G S, BGS (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.bgs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The British Geriatrics Society
Registered
1975

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£2.3m
  • 2024£1.8m£2.1m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.2m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONGST THE AGED AND INFIRM BY THE IMPROVEMENT OF STANDARDS OF MEDICAL CARE FOR SUCH PERSONS, THE HOLDING OF MEETINGS AND THE PUBLICATION OF PAPERS, THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF RESEARCH ON SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF SUCH PERSONS AND THE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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.

1.8y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

12
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 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Health and social care 15Professional services 3Other services 2

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£1.8m 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.

12.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 39.2 in 2021

16 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
268762
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/11/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/10/1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/11/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/11/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/10/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/04/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/10/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/04/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/10/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 NOV 2017 as amended on 17 Nov 2023
Companies House
Company number 01189776 · Active
Contact on the register
02076081369 · ceo@bgs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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