THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT

Registered charity 1117999 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The company's principal activity is to represent the community of management academics and promote the development of management research within the United Kingdom. The Academy's objective is to advance education in the disciplines of business and management for the public benefit.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£913k

Latest spending

£1.0m

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £112,612 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £660,313 to £547,701. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £513,701 remain in excess of the stated policy target of six months of operating costs, indicating sufficient working capital to weather financial shocks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of operating costs (held: £514k)

“The Trustees have concluded that net reserves of a value of a minimum of six months of operating costs are sufficient.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Project experts attend APM-sponsored British Academy of Management event wired-gov.net · 07/09/2023

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Katy Mason — President (source)
Charles Thornton — Treasurer (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.

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

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

Total income

£913k

Total spending

£1.0m

Cost of raising funds

£14k

Reserves (reported)

£548k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Professor Emma Louise Parrychair
Dr Adina Dudau
Dr Andrew Mark Charlwood
Dr Charles Duncan Thornton
Dr Christian Harrison
Dr Elizabeth Houldsworth
Dr Emily Yarrow
Dr Lisa Porter
Dr Mandy Parkinson · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Rebecca Liu
Nicholas Burton
Professor Emma Macdonald
Professor Katherine Jane Mason
Professor Sarah Katrina Robinson

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£913k	£1.0m
31/12/2024	£1.0m	£1.0m
31/12/2023	£988k	£968k
31/12/2022	£875k	£909k
31/12/2021	£595k	£590k

Common questions

Is THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £112,612 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £660,313 to £547,701. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £513,701 remain in excess of the stated policy target of six months of operating costs, indicating sufficient working capital to weather financial shocks. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE MAURICE WOHL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£1.4m
THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION	1	£518k
THE SINO-BRITISH FELLOWSHIP TRUST	1	£214k
REUBEN FOUNDATION	1	£120k
THE DORFMAN FOUNDATION	1	£102k
THE SCHRODER FOUNDATION	1	£80k
THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA	1	£72k
THE DAVID LEAN FOUNDATION	1	£55k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES.

THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES income £106.2m
THE CHARTERED ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS income £18.3m
THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS income £29.3m
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF DERMATOLOGISTS income £7.5m
BRITISH COLLEGE OF AESTHETIC MEDICINE income £376k
THE BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION income £144k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT	£913k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES FY2025	£106.2m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CHARTERED ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS FY2025	£18.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS FY2024	£29.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF DERMATOLOGISTS FY2024	£7.5m	£100,001 - £110,000	8	above	—	no doubt
BRITISH COLLEGE OF AESTHETIC MEDICINE FY2025	£376k	£70,001 - £80,000	1	within	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.