THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES

Registered charity 233176 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q723551 · Wikipedia · also known as THE BRITISH ACADEMY

To inspire, recognise and support high achievement in the humanities and social sciences throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased by £1.05m to £48.40m, driven by a positive net movement in restricted funds and investment gains. The charity maintains free reserves of £7.04m, which exceeds its stated minimum policy target of £6.8m, indicating adequate financial resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 10/06/2024, 131 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Susan J Smith — President (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)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 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: 3.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR ADITI LAHIRI · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR LYNDA NEAD
• PROFESSOR SIR JONATHAN BATE CBE
• Prof Jane Duckett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Alan Norrie
• Professor April McMahon
• Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
• Professor Charles Baden-Fuller
• Professor Cyprian Broodbank · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Desmond King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Dominic Abrams
• Professor Henrietta Moore DBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Hilary Graham CBE
• Professor James Raven · trustee of 4 other charities
• Professor Joanna Story
• Professor Lindsay Farmer
• Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge
• Professor Margot Finn
• Professor Martin Eimer
• Professor Mike Heffernan
• Professor Patrick Haggard
• Professor Shalom Lappin
• Professor Sharon Monteith
• Professor Susan Jane Smith

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT.

• THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT income £913k
• THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE income £136k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE income £6.4m
• BRITISH PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £9.9m
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY income £38k
• ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES income £589k

Side by side with its peers

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