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Registered charity · London

Operational Research Society Limited

  • 11 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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.theorsociety.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Operational Research Society
Registered
1968

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.4m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2022£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2020£1.2m£1.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTEREST IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH. B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN OPERATIONAL 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.

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
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 11

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 11Tech and media 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

21 from 17 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
313713
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11/05/1960AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/05/1966AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/05/1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/09/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/10/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/10/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/07/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/06/2011
Companies House
Company number 00663819 · Active
Contact on the register
01212339300 · email@theorsociety.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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