BRITISH SOCIETY FOR COLPOSCOPY AND CERVICAL PATHOLOGY

Registered charity 1188125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BSCCP

To actively promote high standards of colposcopy & research into screening for, diagnosis and prevention of cervical cancer. The BSCCP is committed to an international approach to the disease and continues to oversee trainees & registered colposcopists, who are currently practising, to ensure they maintain their competence.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY: PROMOTING RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS; THE TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF PROFESSIONALS IN RELATION TO THE NATURE, CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF CANCERS OF THE CERVIX AND LOWER GENITAL TRACT AND; BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND RAISING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SUCH MATTERS.

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: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £119,145 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by increased membership fees and reduced conference costs. Free reserves stood at £679,531, which the trustees consider above their target of approximately £450,000 (one year's expenditure). The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 5 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

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 (95% 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 (13/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Theresa Freeman-Wangchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Byrom
• Josephine Deirdre Lyons
• Julia Palmer
• Nicholas Myerson
• Pierre Martin-Hirsch
• Prof Margaret Eleanor Cruickshank
• Prof Susan Mary Sherman
• Professor John Anthony Tidy

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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 BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY.

• BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY income £1.6m
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY AND DIABETES income £379k
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR GYNAECOLOGICAL ENDOSCOPY TRUST income £1.1m
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING / BRITISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ( BSCI / BSCCT) income £116k
• THE BRITISH GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER SOCIETY income £554k
• THE BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR SOCIETY income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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