THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 229524 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Bibliographical Society promotes and encourages study and research in historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography, the making and use of manuscripts, the history of printing, publishing and illustration, the history of bookbinding, the history of the book, as well as the history of libraries, provenance, readership, and book collecting.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES AND IN PARTICULAR (A) TO PRINT AND PUBLISH WORKS CONCERNED WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHICH ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE COMMERCIALLY PROFITABLE. (B) TO MAINTAIN A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIBRARY, (C) TO HOLD MEETINGS AT WHICH PAPERS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintains a healthy balance in its general purposes fund to withstand unexpected downturns. Total funds carried forward increased to £1,600,848, driven by significant investment gains. The trustees report that the Society has continued to meet its aims and charitable objectives throughout the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID ROBERT STANLEY PEARSON
• David Macfarlane
• Dr Alessandro Bianchi
• Dr Alexandra Franklin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JAMES WILLOUGHBY
• Dr Joseph Frederick Hone
• Dr Julia Lilinoe Morris King
• Dr Julia Walworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Karen Limper-Herz
• Dr Laura Janet Cleaver
• Dr Matthew Thomas William Payne
• Dr Nicolas John Bell · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Stella Dragomirova Panayotova · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr WILLIAM POOLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• EDWARD POTTEN
• Gabriel Mary Sewell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Liam Martin Sims · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucy Grace Evans
• MARGARET LANE FORD
• Professor James Raven FBA · trustee of 3 other charities
• Professor James Raven FBA · trustee of 3 other charities
• RICHARD ALAN LINENTHAL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS income £768k
• HAKLUYT SOCIETY income £118k
• ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY income £684k
• ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY income £397k
• ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £528k
• THE PAST AND PRESENT SOCIETY income £387k

Side by side with its peers

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