MEDICAL SCHOOLS COUNCIL

Registered charity 1155370 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, encourage and develop Medical Schools in the UK and thereby advance education for the public benefit, in particular (but without limitation) medical education, research and training.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £63,290 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total reserves decreasing from £2,247,668 to £2,184,378. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £1,386,368 are sufficient to cover 28 months of unrestricted expenditure, which exceeds their stated policy target of 24 months. The auditor confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (FY2024) → 4 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Christine Thirlwell
• Dr Diana Eccles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Faye Gishen
• Dr Margaret Kingston
• Dr Marina Anderson
• Dr Rory McCrimmon
• Dr Sanjiv Ahluwalia
• Dr Scott Wilkes
• Professor Stephen George Riley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Subrata Sekhar Banerjee

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 ACADEMY OF MEDICAL EDUCATORS.

• ACADEMY OF MEDICAL EDUCATORS income £337k
• MERSEY SCHOOL OF ANAESTHESIA income £418k
• THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE income £13.7m
• THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE MEDICAL INSTITUTE LIMITED income £474k
• GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL income £167.5m
• ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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