PRIMARY CARE RESPIRATORY SOCIETY UK

Registered charity 1098117 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GENERAL PRACTICE AIRWAYS GROUP, GENERAL PRACTICE AIRWAYS GROUP LIMITED, PCRS-UK

The Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK) is the UK-wide professional society dedicated to meeting the vision of optimal respiratory care for all. We work across all areas of respiratory medicine in primary care, offering a wide range of educational services, influencing policy and setting standards in respiratory medicine.

Objects

TO PROMOTE INTEREST IN, EDUCATE AND FACILITATE RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC INTO ALL ASPECTS OF COMMON RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS FOUND IN PRIMARY CARE; TO PROVIDE AN AUTHORITATIVE OPINION WHEN REQUIRED ON MATTERS RELATING TO ALL ASPECTS OF COMMON RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS FOUND IN PRIMARY CARE; ACCREDIT AND ENDORSE METHODOLOGIES, RESEARCH, PRODUCTS, INDIVIDUALS AND BODIES AFTER PROPER CONSIDERATION; AND TO PROVIDE INFORMATION FOR SUBSCRIBERS AND OTHERS ON ALL ASPECTS OF COMMON RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS FOUND IN PRIMARY CARE

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity ended the financial year with a surplus of £61,390 and unrestricted reserves of £964,675, which the trustees state is slightly above the maximum target level of £971,215. The organization relies heavily on pharmaceutical sponsorship for income, which decreased by 8% in the year, and notes that sponsorship and funding remain a significant challenge. Despite this reliance, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• 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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~19.9 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 (62% 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: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carol Stonham
• Dr Paul Seamus Stephenson
• James Rose
• Jignesh Indukumar Sangani
• Kevin Gruffyd-Jones
• Richard Walker · trustee of 2 other charities
• Takeshi Matsuda

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY.

• THE BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY income £3.2m
• PRIMARY CARE DIABETES SOCIETY income £169k
• PCD RESEARCH income £73k
• THE BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR SOCIETY income £3.4m
• Asthma and Lung UK income £16.1m
• Paediatric Critical Care Society income £212k

Side by side with its peers

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