SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY

Registered charity 1190304 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHAC

THE SOCIETY PROMOTES THE SCHOLARLY STUDY OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES (INCLUDING ALCHEMY). IT HOLDS MEETINGS FOR THE READING AND DISCUSSION OF SCHOLARLY PAPERS, PROVIDES SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS, IN PARTICULAR TO POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS, AND PUBLISHES ARTICLES AND ESSAYS, ESPECIALLY IN AMBIX, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AS A LEARNED SOCIETY, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE, AND SCIENCE THROUGH SCHOLARLY AND/OR CURATORIAL ACTIVITY RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND OF OTHER SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY:(1) PUBLISHING A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL AND BY MAINTAINING MEMBERSHIP(2) PUBLISHING OCCASIONAL SCHOLARLY WORKS;(3) PROVIDING STUDY GRANTS TO STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS;(4) FUNDING AND / OR ORGANISING SCHOLARLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS.(5) DISSEMINATING INFORMATION NOT ONLY ON THE SOCIETY’S EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES BUT THOSE OF OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN THE SAME AND RELATED FIELDS;(6) AWARDING PRIZES FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOLARSHIP.

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's unrestricted reserves stood at £144,937.00 at the end of the financial year, exceeding the policy target of £140,000. The trustees report that no fund is in deficit and the independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor FRANK ARTHUR JOHN LORD JAMESchair
• Dr ANNA ELIZABETH WOODMAN
• Dr Annette Lykknes
• Dr CAROLYN ANN COBBOLD
• Dr Christopher John Campbell
• Dr DELIA GEORGIANA HEDESAN
• Dr JENNIFER MARGARET RAMPLING
• Dr Michael Trevor Bycroft
• Dr Peter Ramberg
• Dr ROBERT ALEXANDER JOHNSTONE
• Dr Robert Franklin Bud
• Dr Sarah Lang
• Dr TILLMANN TAAPE
• Ellen Meredith Hausner
• PROFESSOR HASOK CHANG
• PROFESSOR LAWRENCE MICHAEL PRINCIPE
• Professor Bruce Thomas Moran

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

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