THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 229642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC039452 (OSCR)

Activities are as specified by the Charter, Statutes and Rules of the Society

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved its first operational surplus in five years, with total income rising to £13.40m and total expenditure decreasing to £12.66m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £13.0 million, which is above the stated policy target of nine months' income (£10m).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• British Psychological Society criticised over ‘whiteness’ and ‘anti-racism’ lessons telegraph.co.uk · 14/12/2024
• British Psychological Society chair resigns after 15 months in the role thirdsector.co.uk · 03/04/2024

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: BPS ASSESSMENTS AND AWARDS LIMITED Companies House 12668789

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarb Bajwa — Chief Executive (source)
• Roman Raczka — President (source)
• Carol Cole — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Laura Dean — President-Elect (source)
• Bruno De Oliveira — Chair of Senate (source)
• Patricia Hind — Chair of the Education and Training Board (source)
• Carol McGuinness — Chair of the Member Board (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 (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Carew
• Dr Bruno De Oliveira
• Dr Carol Winifred Cole · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Esther Cohen-Tovee
• Dr Laura Dean
• Dr Richard Stephens
• Jonathan Harding
• Julia Faulconbridge
• Kevin Quinn
• Matthew Cameron
• Matthew Howell
• Prof Patrick Leman
• Professor Anthony Lavender
• Professor Patricia Hind

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

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• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £14.3m

Side by side with its peers

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