PRIMARY CARE DERMATOLOGY SOCIETY

Registered charity 1109376 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCDS

The Primary Care Dermatology Society was formed after recognising the need for a forum where GPs could exchange views on primary care dermatology, develop their skills and progress clinical research in this developing field of medicine. The Society now includes all healthcare professionals providing primary healthcare services in dermatology.

Objects

The Charity's Object is: the relief of sickness by advancing the education of healthcare professionals providing primary healthcare services in dermatology and promoting research into dermatology and publishing the useful results of such research.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £359,186 exceed the trustees' policy target of approximately £150,000, representing three months of expenditure. Although the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £38,641 for the year, the trustees confirm the entity is a going concern with sufficient cash and short-term investments to meet liabilities for at least twelve months.

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (52% 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: 9.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Borthwick
• Barbara Page
• Dr Inma Mauri-Sole
• Dr Michelle Ralph
• Geoffrey Holmes
• Hannah Wainman
• Ivan Bristow

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

Operates in: Scotland

Income and spending

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