SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON

Registered charity 207237 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE ENCOURAGEMENT, ADVANCEMENT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND HISTORY OF THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES THROUGH CONSERVATION, RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATION.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £729,655 for the year, resulting in a free reserves deficit of £725,971. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves have diminished in recent years and are actively working to better align income with the cost base to address this issue.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Society of Antiquaries (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof Martin Millettchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr ANDREW SEAMAN
• Dr CAROL BELL · trustee of 5 other charities
• Dr Dustin McKinley Frazier Wood
• Dr Elizabeth Hallam-Smith
• Dr Kenneth Brophy
• Dr Samantha Lucy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Stewart Bryant
• Dr Thomas Williams
• Professor Anthony Joseph Musson
• Professor Jennifer Susan Alexander
• Shahina Farid
• Timothy Loughton

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 THE PAST AND PRESENT SOCIETY.

• THE PAST AND PRESENT SOCIETY income £387k
• THE ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGICAL SOCIETY income £188k
• COUNCIL FOR BRITISH RESEARCH IN THE LEVANT income £766k
• THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SOCIETY income £75k
• THE SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £1.6m
• CREATE SPACE LONDON income £132k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.