ROYAL ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Registered charity 213620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q673864 · Wikipedia · also known as ROYAL ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Our aim is to improve/disseminate knowledge of insect science. We organise meetings of a general/specialist nature where scientific knowledge is presented. The relationship of insects to ecology, conservation, food, animal or human health being a part of the science. We publish academic journals and identification guides for the general public and scientists. Our membership is international

Objects

FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND DIFFUSION OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE EXCLUSIVELY.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: St Albans, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a minor net deficit of £45,759 for the year, driven by a 29% rise in expenditure to £2.16 million, largely due to the acquisition of a new London headquarters and staff restructuring. However, this was substantially offset by £519,893 in net investment gains, and the charity maintains a robust financial foundation with total funds exceeding £21 million. While free liquid reserves temporarily dropped to £413,157 due to a bridging loan for the property purchase, the trustees state this timing difference will be resolved upon the pending sale of the previous headquarters, Mansion House.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: RES TRADING LIMITED Companies House 14355671 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Ward — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Emilie Aimé — Director of Publishing (source)
• David Ross — Director of Publishing (Interim) (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £4.6m. 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 28/02/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~117.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 12.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Jane Stoutchair
• Anastasia Uglow
• Dr ALLAN DOUGLAS WATT
• Dr Heather Campbell
• Dr Liam Crowley
• Dr Lucy Alford
• Dr Maximillian Tercel
• Dr RICHARD HARRINGTON
• Dr SHAUN LESLIE WINTERTON
• Moses Musonda
• Professor Darren Mark Evans
• Professor Phil Murray
• Professor Seirian Rose Sumner

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE AMATEUR ENTOMOLOGISTS' SOCIETY.

• THE AMATEUR ENTOMOLOGISTS' SOCIETY income £95k
• THE BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £6.3m
• THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON FOR IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE (COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ROYAL SOCIETY) income £157.6m
• THE BRITISH ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY income £361k
• ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY income £2.0m
• THE ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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