BRITISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Registered charity 1149074 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4096600 · Wikipedia · also known as BSG

Education and Training (annual scientific meeting, postgraduate training, clinical update meetings)Supporting research into gut and liver disease (supporting academic development, promoting Gut)Enhancing service standards (clinical service development, guidelines, sharing of best practice)Supporting the gastrointestinal communityPromoting awareness of gastroenterology

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH BY PROVIDING A HIGH STANDARD OF PATIENT CARE,CLINICAL SERVICES,RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER DISEASE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INTERNATIONALLY

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £2,403,489 are broadly in line with the trustees' target of approximately £1,600,000, which is designed to cover one calendar year of key activities. The charity reports a net decrease in funds of £293,670 for the year, primarily driven by unrealised losses on investments, though operational income exceeded expenditure. The trustees confirm 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 audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 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 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

In the news

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

• #GUTBlog Guidelines on the use of liver biopsy in clinical practice from the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Royal College of Radiologists and the Royal College of Pathology – The official blog of Gut blogs.bmj.com · 18/07/2020

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08124892

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SANDERS, David Surendran, Professor — director, appointed 25/06/2026on trustee list
• EVERETT, Simon, Dr — director, appointed 25/06/2026on trustee list
• WATTERS, Mishail — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• VALENTINE, Virginia Louise — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• AL-SHAMMA, Safa, Dr — director, appointed 26/06/2025on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Sarah Marie — director, appointed 26/06/2025on trustee list
• MCPHERSON, Donald Stuart, Prof — director, appointed 26/06/2025on trustee list
• MCCAULEY, Paul Gerard — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• MORRIS, Allan John, Dr — director, appointed 23/06/2022on trustee list
• JONES, Trevor William — director, appointed 21/06/2021on trustee list
• AZDEJKOVIC, Marina — director, appointed 16/01/2020on trustee list
• BUDD, Thomas Matthew — director, appointed 16/01/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (80% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Allan John Morris
• Dr Beverly Oates
• Dr Harriet Gordon
• Dr Safa Al-Shamma
• Dr Simon Everett
• Marina Azdejkovic
• Mishail Watters
• PROFESSOR DAVID SURENDRAN SANDERS
• Paul Gerard McCauley
• Professor Donald Stuart McPherson
• Sarah Marie Marshall
• Thomas Budd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Trevor Jones
• Virginia Louise Valentine

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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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL AND ABDOMINAL RADIOLOGY.

• BRITISH SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL AND ABDOMINAL RADIOLOGY income £201k
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF PAEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION income £287k
• THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY income £281k
• THE BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY income £1.8m
• BRITISH LARYNGOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION income £134k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGEONS income £895k

Side by side with its peers

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