CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 213811 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aims of the Society are to promote research in all branches of science and to encourage the communication of the results of scientific research.

Objects

PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY AND PUBLICATION OF RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £16,828,916 at the end of the year, with unrestricted reserves standing at £16,763,177. The charity reported a net income of £937,410, driven by significant investment gains of £832,212 alongside charitable activity income of £565,201. The trustees confirmed the charity is well placed to manage its business risks and has adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chater Allan LLP. 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~14.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (57% 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: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor John Peter Carrchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DR C Y BARLOW · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr James Alastair Fraser
• Dr Nicholas Pugh
• Dr Robert Asher
• Dr Thomas Keith Carne
• PROFESSOR Maciej Dunajski · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Alan Lindsay Greer
• Professor Alexander George Shui Cheung Liu
• Professor Andrew Mawdesley Pitts
• Professor Bartomeu Monserrat Sanchez
• Professor Elizabeth Anne Howlett Hall · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Ian Brierley
• Professor Joan Lasenby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Nicholas James Cunniffe
• Professor Nick Hopwood
• Professor Sarah Bray
• Professor Simon David Guest · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Stuart Clarke

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £4.8m
• THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON FOR IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE (COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ROYAL SOCIETY) income £157.6m
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF SOIL SCIENCE income £712k
• THE GENETICS SOCIETY income £530k
• THE ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY income £2.4m
• ANATOMICAL SOCIETY income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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