THE FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETIES

Registered charity 1149638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FEBS

FEBS promotes and supports biochemistry, molecular cell biology, molecular biophysics and related areas, particularly in Europe and neighbouring regions. It publishes four scientific journals and funds principally an Annual Congress, Research Fellowships, Prizes, Advanced Courses, a Young Scientists' Forum, Education and other Workshops, and Travel Grants.

Objects

THE FEDERATION'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE AND SHALL BE TO CONTRIBUTE TO AND PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE SCIENCES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES (BUT ONLY IN SO FAR AS SUCH RELATED DISCIPLINES ARE ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN OBJECT), BY ALL SUITABLE MEANS AND IN PARTICULAR BY:1) HOLDING AND ARRANGING CONGRESSES, TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL COURSES ON MATTERS CONNECTED WITH BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES;2) FACILITATING AND SUPPORTING THE EXCHANGE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION BETWEEN BIOCHEMISTS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGISTS AND SCIENTISTS WORKING IN RELATED DISCIPLINES GENERALLY AND ESPECIALLY IN EUROPE AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF CONSTITUENT SOCIETIES;3) FACILITATING AND SUPPORTING THE TRAINING OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS IN RESEARCH, IN THE FORM OF FELLOWSHIPS; AND4) ORGANISING THE EDITING AND PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to €112,728,488, with a net movement in funds of €13,571,077 for the year. The charity holds a reserves policy allocating €4M for one year’s essential funding, held in cash, while the majority of assets are invested to generate long-term returns. The trustees confirm that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hill Wooldridge & Co. Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from €70,001 - €80,000 (FY2023) to €70,000 - €79,999 (FY2024).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2023) → 2 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Anne Ephrussi
• Dr Rasa Zukiene
• PROFESSOR Ferhan Girgin Sagin
• PROFESSOR MIGUEL ANGEL DE LA ROSA
• Professor Frank Michelangeli
• Professor Irene Diaz Moreno
• Professor Jerka Dumic
• Professor Johannes Buchner
• Professor Maria da Graca Soveral
• Professor Mauro Maccarrone
• Professor Mauro Magnani
• Professor Riccardo Miggiano
• Professor Xavier Coumoul

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

Operates in: France · Germany · Hungary · Ireland · Portugal · Scotland · Spain · 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 THE FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES.

• THE FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES income £2.0m
• THE EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETIES' ASSOCIATION income £182k
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY income £138k
• THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY income £4.8m
• THE SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY income £2.9m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED BIOLOGISTS income £454k

Side by side with its peers

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