PHARMACY RESEARCH UK

Registered charity 1148335 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30264707

- To promote research into the practice of pharmacy and to publish the useful results of such research.- To promote the health of the public by educating pharmacists in order to enhance the standard of healthcare available to the public.- To advance and promote knowledge and skill in relation to the practice of pharmacy for the public good.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL (AND PARTICULARLY AMONGST SCIENTISTS) ON THE SUBJECT OF PHARMACY AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL ASPECTS OF THAT SUBJECT AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Pharmacy Research UK reported a net expenditure of £148,021 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £2,813,326 to £2,665,305. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,304,099 and the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. The organization relies heavily on investment income, which generated £74,620, to fund its charitable activities.

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
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Malcolm Harrisonchair
• Dr Sonja Jonas · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jessica Purkiss
• Katherine Byrne
• PROFESSOR BRIAN EDWARDS
• Peter Johnstone
• Professor Rachel Elliott
• Ravinder Chahil · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raymond Anderson
• SUE ASHELBY
• Tase Oputu · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: 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 MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION.

• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• PHARMACIST SUPPORT income £515k
• HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH UK income £313k
• THE FACULTY OF PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM income £2.1m
• BRITISH PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £9.9m
• THE DRUG SAFETY RESEARCH TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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