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Registered charity · Cambs

The Company of Biologists

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £8.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Argentina, Australia, Austria and more
Website
www.biologists.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Company of Biologists
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.4m£9.8m
  • 2024£7.7m£9.2m
  • 2023£7.8m£8.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.6m£6.9m
  • 2021£7.6m£5.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

GENERAL ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN AND THE KNOWLEDGE AND STUDY OF BIOLOGY IN ALL BRANCHES AND THE UNDERTAKING OF ALL ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE THERETO

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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.

4.4y median 2y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Manufacturing 10Professional services 3Business 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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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£7.7m 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.

41.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 49.2 in 2020

69 from 57 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
277992
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED THE 31ST DECEMBER 1952 AS AMENDED 8 JUNE 2001, 24 JUNE 2002 , 8 JULY 2005, 24 JULY 2009 AND 23 JULY 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 JUL 2016 as amended on 05 Oct 2020 as amended on 04 Oct 2024
Companies House
Company number 00514735 · Active
Contact on the register
01223632851 · katie.ward@biologists.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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