ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 241990 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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.

What the accounts disclose

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.

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).

Trustees

• 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 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON FOR IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE (COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ROYAL SOCIETY).

• 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 FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES income £2.0m
• BRITISH LICHEN SOCIETY income £144k
• THE ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY income £2.4m
• BRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £322k