ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 241990 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our object is to promote the advancement of microscopical science through the discussion and publication of research into improvements in the construction and mode of application of microscopes and into those branches of science where microscopy is important, and to organise educational activities concerned with microscopy for the benefit of the general public and for the science community.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The Royal Microscopical Society reported total net assets of £5,447,928 for the year ending 31 December 2024, an increase from £5,325,387 in the previous year. Unrestricted income funds stood at £5,416,888, while restricted income funds were £31,040. The balance sheet shows current assets of £1,147,504 against current liabilities of £443,670, resulting in net current assets of £703,834.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sali Davis — Chief Executive (source)
• Adam Clay — Finance & Operations Director (source)
• Victoria Masters — Director of Culture, People & Events (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 (1 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~35.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Anna Baldycheva
• Dr Christa Gertrud Walther
• Dr Eric Prestat
• Dr Ian MacLaren
• Dr Julia Parker
• Dr Katherine Paine
• Dr Kerry Thompson
• Dr Kurt Anderson
• Dr Liam Rooney
• Dr PETER O'TOOLE PHD
• Dr Rachael Walker
• Dr Roland Fleck · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Steven Thomas
• Dr Verena Christine Kriechbaumer
• Dr Yanping Guo
• PHOEBE CLARICE WHITLOCK
• PROFESSOR MICHELLE PECKHAM
• Professor Alice Leonora Bedford Pyne
• Professor Andy Brown
• Professor Jamie Hobbs
• Professor Maddy Parsons
• Professor Rik Drummond-Brydson
• Rod Shipley

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 ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY.

• ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY income £2.3m
• THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON FOR IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE (COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ROYAL SOCIETY) income £157.6m
• ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (WITH THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS) income £6.1m
• THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN income £1.7m
• THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN income £9.8m
• THE FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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