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Registered charity · Swindon

The British Computer Society

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £22m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability
Where
Austria, Belgium, Canada, China and more
Website
www.bcs.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£22m£24m
  • 2024£25m£26m
  • 2023£24m£24m
Earlier years
  • 2022£22m£22m
  • 2021£22m£21m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF COMPUTING AND THE ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION THEREIN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE 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.

0.9y median 0y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.4y
average years in governance
1
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 14Education/training 14The 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.

Hospitality 1Tech and media 1

Gaps to watch

  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£21.9m 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.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.8 in 2021

254 from 244 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.
7%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
292786
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 31 JULY 1984 AS AMENDED 15 OCTOBER 1996, 13 NOVEMBER 2003 AND 10 SEPTEMBER 2010AS AMENDED ON 28 MAR 2021 as amended by an Order in Council on 08 Jun 2022
Contact on the register
01793417417 · Registrar@bcs.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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