THE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL ROYAL COLLEGES
Registered charity 1056565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
THE ACADEMY'S PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY IS SHARING AND CO-ORDINATING THE WORK OF THE MEDICAL ROYAL COLLEGES AND FACULTIES. THE ACADEMY PRODUCES GENERIC DOCUMENTS AND BRINGS TOGETHER EXPERTS IN ITS SUBCOMMITTEES TO SHARE BEST PRACTICE AND ENSURE THE MAINTENANCE OF STANDARDS OF TRAINING AND EDUCATION.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated total incoming resources of £1,507,488 and expended £1,790,190, resulting in a deficit for the year. The Trustees note that the financial position is 'almost always finely balanced' and that the deficit relates to timing differences in restricted funds, but they consider the charity to be financially viable with unrestricted reserves of £1,477,427.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: nine and twelve months running costs (held: £1.5m)
“The approach used to calculate the target range of unrestricted reserves is to hold between nine and twelve months running costs. Therefore the target range for unrestricted reserves is between £948k and £1.3M.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
10 DALLINGTON STREET LTD — per its own Companies House accounts
- Registered office is C/O Islington Properties Limited.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Alison Johns — Chair of Trustees (source)
- Tim Mitchell — Chair of Council (source)
- Dr Jeanette Dickson — Former Chair of Council (implied by leadership context) (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- STRACHAN, Mark William John, Professor — director, appointed 24/07/2026on trustee list
- FERGUSON, Sheuli — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
- JOHNS, Alison — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
- BERNSTEIN, Richard Paul — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
- BRYDEN, Daniele Clare, Dr — director, appointed 26/05/2023on trustee list
- SMITH, Graham Richard Elliott — director, appointed 01/12/2022on trustee list
- STOUT, David Francis — director, appointed 01/12/2022on trustee list
- MCCARVILL, Philip, Dr — secretary, appointed 11/02/2026
Official officers record.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Alison Johnschair
- David Francis Stout · trustee of 1 other charity
- Dr Daniele Bryden
- Graham Richard Elliott Smith
- Professor Mark William John Strachan
- Richard Bernstein
- Sheuli Ferguson
- TIMOTHY EDWARD MITCHELL · trustee of 1 other charity
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland
Income and spending
Common questions
Is THE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL ROYAL COLLEGES financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated total incoming resources of £1,507,488 and expended £1,790,190, resulting in a deficit for the year. The Trustees note that the financial position is 'almost always finely balanced' and that the deficit relates to timing differences in restricted funds, but they consider the charity to be financially viable with unrestricted reserves of £1,477,427. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Price Bailey LLP.
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