Registered charity · Southampton
The Drug Safety Research Trust
- 5 trustees
- Income £1.2m (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.dsru.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1986
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£1.2m£2.5m
- 2023£2.3m£2.7m
- 2022£1.9m£2.7m
Earlier years
- 2021£4.0m£2.8m
- 2020£1.4m£1.6m
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY BY THE CONDUCT AND PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO AND THE ORGANISATION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE STUDY OF THE SAFETY AND AFFICANCY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES AND DRUG PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY. TO PUBLISH OR PROCURE THE PUBLICATION OF AND OTHERWISE DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH. FOR FURTHER DETAIL SEE CLAUSE 5.
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.
5 trustees on the board
Trustees past 6 years
- Professor Kenneth Ross Paterson Chair since 2020
- Professor Allan Hunter Young since 2016
- Professor Isla Shelagh Mackenzie Mbchb since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Professor Kenneth Ross Paterson Chair since 2020
- Professor Martin Patterson Vessey CBE Frcp
- Professor Allan Hunter Young since 2016
- Professor Isla Shelagh Mackenzie Mbchb since 2019
Portfolio (1)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
33.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 59.3 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 327206
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 23RD JULY 1986 AS VARIED BY A SUPPLEMENTAL DEED DATED 27 JUNE 2001.
- Contact on the register
- 02380408600 · rachel.green@dsru.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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