THE BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY (INCORPORATING THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS)

Registered charity 212330 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INSTITUTE OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS, LONDON CLINIC OF PSYCHO ANALYSIS

We are a UK wide and international community of professionals, dedicated to helping people enhance their lives through an intensive talking therapy, psychoanalysis. The Institute of Psychoanalysis is the outward face and training body of the British Psychoanalytic Society. We organise public events, lectures and conferences and publish The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £4,276,769, resulting in total funds of £10,256,051. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £(126,210) for the year, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue operations with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — British Psychoanalytical Society (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/03/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Alison Coates Thummelchair
• Annelize Taylor
• Beate Anna Schumacher
• Dr Ana Paulina Frajtag Sauma
• Dr Antony Richard Williams
• Dr Anuradha Menon
• ELIZABETH SUSAN WOLF · trustee of 1 other charity
• Isobel Clare Pick
• Mary Louise Lyon
• Robert Michael David Alster
• Todd Andrew Hinds

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY.

• THE SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY income £505k
• BRITISH PSYCHOTHERAPY FOUNDATION income £2.8m
• BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTIC COUNCIL income £865k
• THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO HEALTH AND RELATED PUBLIC SERVICES,IN THE E.C. AND E.F.T.A. COUNTRIES income £101k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £14.3m
• INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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