THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF RHEOLOGY

Registered charity 249967 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide support to workers in the scientific field of rheology through the provision of services such as regular publications, organisation of conferences and meetings, conferring of awards, travel bursaries, etc.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY AND THE DIFFUSION TO THE PUBLIC OF KNOWLEDGE CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF PURE AND APPLIED RHEOLOGY.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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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Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£50k

Latest spending

£31k

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted cash funds of approximately £48,000 at the end of the period, with a stated contingency reserve of around £25,000. The trustees report that the charity is improving in spending its annual surplus and plan to run a moderate deficit in the following year to subsidize meetings and increase funding initiatives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“BSR plan to continue a to run a moderate deficit in 2025 through subsidization of BSR meetings and increased spending on funding initiatives. Running an annual deficit, for example, of £3k would stretch excess funds over 15 years.”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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 handling
Conflicting interests
Risk management

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts
Dr Andreia Filipa Fonseca da Silva
Dr Andrew Clarke
Dr Christopher Ness
Dr Claire McIlroy
Dr Claudio Antonio Pereira da Fonte
Dr Malgorzata Zofia Zajac
Dr Monica S N Oliveira
Dr Richard L Watson
Dr Richard Lewis Thompson
Dr Richard Simon Hodgkinson
Joshua Stephen Edward Marsh
Proffessor Robert John Poole

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£50k	£31k
31/12/2023	£53k	£55k
31/12/2022	£17k	£12k
31/12/2021	£17k	£9k
31/12/2020	£14k	£8k

Common questions

Is THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF RHEOLOGY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted cash funds of approximately £48,000 at the end of the period, with a stated contingency reserve of around £25,000. The trustees report that the charity is improving in spending its annual surplus and plan to run a moderate deficit in the following year to subsidize meetings and increase funding initiatives. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE BARBERS' COMPANY GENERAL CHARITIES	1	£7k

Charities like this

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

BRITISH HYDROLOGICAL SOCIETY income £203k
BRITISH SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL AND ABDOMINAL RADIOLOGY income £201k
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR RHEUMATOLOGY income £5.4m
BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY income £1.6m
THE BRITISH TRAUMA SOCIETY income £39k
BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF RHEOLOGY	£50k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
BRITISH HYDROLOGICAL SOCIETY FY2025	£203k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BRITISH SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL AND ABDOMINAL RADIOLOGY FY2025	£201k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR RHEUMATOLOGY FY2025	£5.4m	—	0	above	0.0%	no doubt
BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FY2025	£1.6m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	within	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH TRAUMA SOCIETY FY2025	£39k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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