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Registered charity · London

The Nutrition Society

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England
Website
www.nutritionsociety.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Nutrition Society
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.4m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.8m
  • 2022£1.2m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2020£1.5m£1.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF NUTRITION AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE MAINTENANCE OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH.

Grants received

3 grants · £16,565 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £9,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Work and Pensions · £7,565

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £3,0002021-08-12
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £6,0002021-07-09
  • Department for Work and Pensions £7,5652021-04-01
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.

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 12Education/training 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Professional services 10Education 2Business services 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.4m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

7.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.1 in 2020

13 from 12 in 2020
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
272071
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24/08/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/12/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/08/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/07/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/07/2011
Companies House
Company number 01274585 · Active
Contact on the register
02076056551 · office@nutritionsociety.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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