ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY

Registered charity 1100648 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASO

To promote professional awareness of obesity and its impact on health. To educate and disseminate recent research on the causes, consequences, treatment and prevention of obesity. To prioritise obesity and provide opinion leadership in the UK.

Objects

TO PROMOTE MEDICAL RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF OBESITY AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND TO ESTABLISH, PRINT, PUBLISH, ISSUE, CIRCULATE AND SELL SUCH PAPERS, JOURNALS, BOOKS, MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS, AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS, TAPES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 ended the year with a net loss of £16,635, primarily due to increased expenditure on conferences and project work. Per the trustees' report, the charity held cash balances of £266,025 at year-end, which allows for more than two years of activity without any income, reinforcing its financial stability despite the deficit.

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 5 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
• 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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Aileen Frances McGloin
• Dr Paul Gately · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Sandra Isibor
• Dr Yitka Nora Graham
• Mary O'Kane
• Patrick Leo McGinley
• Professor Emilie Combet

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY.

• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY income £1.6m
• BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION income £3.2m
• OBSTETRICS ANAESTHETISTS ASSOCIATION income £835k
• THE ASTROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION income £112k
• PUBLIC HEALTH COLLABORATION income £354k
• THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS income £161k

Side by side with its peers

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