THE INTERNATIONAL CONTINENCE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1074929 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of sciences, the promotion of research and the publication of results, concerned with the area of incontinence.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF BASIC AND CLINICAL SCIENCES CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION OF THE URINARY TRACT, BOWEL AND PELVIC FLOOR

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year in a slightly positive position with consolidated funds of £1,267,263, which is above the stated reserves policy target of £1,176,915. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficit or trading subsidiary losses.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~28.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Howard Goldman
• Dr Lori Birder
• Frances Bridget Bates
• Prof Adrian Stuart Wagg
• Prof Elisabetta Costantini
• Prof Enrico Finazzi Agro
• Prof Hidehiro Kakizaki
• Prof Maurizio Serati
• Prof Tufan Tarcan

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Association for Continence Professionals.

• Association for Continence Professionals income £177k
• THE INTENSIVE CARE SOCIETY income £2.0m
• THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF DERMATOLOGICAL SOCIETIES income £5.1m
• THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY income £335k
• THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES LIMITED income £253k
• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LIMITED income £479k

Side by side with its peers

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