BIOMETRIKA TRUST

Registered charity 1205601 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Biometrika Trust supports the statistical community. Largely, this is done through community engagement grants and the publication of a world leading journal (Biometrika) in the area of statistical theory and methods.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF STATISTICAL THEORY BY THE MANAGEMENT AND PUBLICATION OF THE JOURNAL ENTITLED "BIOMETRIKA" AND SUCH OTHER PUBLICATIONS DEALING WITH THE APPLICATION OF STATISTICAL THEORY TO BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OR WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICAL THEORY ITSELF AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £87,302 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £1,206,385. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, noting that over 70% of publication income comes from long-term contracts. The charity maintains a significant level of reserves, including £543k in cash or cash equivalents, to react to changes in academic publishing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Peter James Green FRSchair
• Dr Rex Ferguson Galbraith
• MARTIN LAMAISON
• PROFESSOR VALERIE ISHAM
• Professor Anthony Christopher Davison PhD
• Professor Daniel Mark Farewell Ph.D.
• Professor Jeremy Edward Oakley
• Professor Judith Naik Rousseau Ph.D.
• Professor Oliver Robin Henderson
• Professor Ruth King
• Professor Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen FRS
• Rui Wang
• Sir Peter James Donnelly FRS

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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