THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS

Registered charity 261035 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The College's mission is to promote excellence in the practice of pathology, and its primary concern is to patients and the public. As indicated in the Royal Charter the aims are to (1) advance the science and practice of pathology (2) further public education in the field of pathology and (3) promote research in pathology and disseminate the results.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the College is actively engaged with government plans and has moved its 2024–2029 strategy from vision to action. The trustees report that the organization is reviewing its financial model to support sustainability and modernizing its operations, including digital systems.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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

• BSI-CIPN response to clinical immunology workforce report by Royal College of Pathologists immunology.org · 15/09/2025
• Royal College of Pathologists voices concerns over assisted dying Bill righttolife.org.uk · 11/06/2025
• Royal College of Pathologists ‘cannot support’ Leadbeater Bill christian.org.uk · 11/06/2025
• New CEO appointment – Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia nzdoctor.co.nz · 06/12/2023
• Caroline Joyce receives Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) | University College Cork ucc.ie · 18/09/2023
• Dr. Geeta Vemuganti accepted as a Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists herald.uohyd.ac.in · 27/02/2023
• Female Presidents of the “Royal College of Pathologists”: Their Achievements and Contributions frontiersin.org · 05/04/2022
• Royal College of Pathologists by Bennetts Associates archisearch.gr · 20/10/2020

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Bernie Croal — 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Association for Laboratory Medicine — “The website is non-commercial and free to access, with support provided by the Association for Laboratory Medicine, the Institute of Biomedi…” (source page)
• Institute of Biomedical Science — “The website is non-commercial and free to access, with support provided by the Association for Laboratory Medicine, the Institute of Biomedi…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £14.8m. 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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 20.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Vincent Voonchair
• Dr Alison Patricia Watt
• Dr Andrew John Ashcroft
• Dr Bernard Lewis Croal
• Dr Charu Chopra
• Dr Emma Louise Short
• Dr Laszlo Igali
• Dr Noha Elsayed Salama ElSakka
• Dr Shubha Allard
• Jennifer Ifeoma Phillips
• Lesli Ellen Constance Flinn
• Professor Marco Novelli
• Professor Marta Cecilia Cohen OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Peter Wilson Johnston
• Professor Sara Ellen Coupland · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS.

• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS income £53.7m
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGISTS income £15.2m
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS income £7.9m
• ROYAL COLLEGE OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH income £21.6m
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTORS income £558k
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON income £44.4m

Side by side with its peers

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