THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

Registered charity 206219 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. Broad range of educational activities/opportunities for doctors, dentists and veterinary surgeons, including students, and for allied healthcare professionals.2. Exchange of information/ideas on medicine, within the health professions and with public opinion.3. Publish medical books, and distance learning materials.4. Maintain one of the largest medical libraries in Europe.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £0.2 million for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £32.0 million to £31.7 million. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm the organization has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with £9.6 million in cash and unrestricted general reserves of £4.4 million, which exceed the policy target of six months' unrestricted expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Gillian Leng — President (source)
• Rachel Lambert-Forsyth — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (47% 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: 49.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Hilary Morris
• Dr Linda Patterson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Sarah Clarke
• Dr Sian Rees
• Hamish Thomas
• Ian Currie
• Professor Andrew Krentz
• Professor David Oliver · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Gillian Leng · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Margaret Rae
• Professor Paul O'Flynn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sanjay Shah · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MEDICAL SCHOOLS COUNCIL.

• MEDICAL SCHOOLS COUNCIL income £2.7m
• THE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL ROYAL COLLEGES income £1.5m
• DOCTORS IN DISTRESS income £228k
• THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON income £221k
• THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY income £290k
• ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND income £43.7m

Side by side with its peers

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