THE CHARTERED SOCIETY OF FORENSIC SCIENCES

Registered charity 1156052 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CSFS

Charitable activities include promotion and development of regulation in forensic science and practice. Provision of opportunities for education, training and development for forensic practitioners. Support and encouragement for research and development in the forensic sciences.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY ARE TO ADVANCE THE STUDY, APPLICATION AND STANDING OF FORENSIC SCIENCE AND TO FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AMONG PERSONS INTERESTED IN FORENSIC SCIENCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a healthy surplus of £72,162 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves totaling £710,717. The trustees confirmed that sufficient resources are available to continue ongoing activities, noting that £703,555 of the reserves could be converted into liquid funds within one month. Per the trustees' report, the society maintains a risk register and insurance cover to mitigate major risks to its operations.

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 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: FORSCITE LTD Companies House 11669778 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House RC000869

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Craig Arnold
• Dr Ana Flavia Belchior de Andrade
• Dr Anya Louise Hunt
• Dr Helen Tidy
• Ian Turner
• Leisa Nichols-Drew
• Peter Zioupos
• Robert Milne
• Tim Thompson

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 ANATOMICAL SOCIETY.

• ANATOMICAL SOCIETY income £1.7m
• THE SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION income £690k
• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k
• ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND income £43.7m
• THE FACULTY OF FORENSIC & LEGAL MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS income £1.0m
• THE LAW SOCIETY EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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