POPULATION INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE

Registered charity 263783 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as P I C

To promote the training of demographers in the UK, encourage research in the field of population studies and to disseminate the results to as wide an audience as possible.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF DEMOGRAPHY IN BOTH ITS QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ASPECTS.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small overall surplus of £755 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by tightly controlled expenditure and stable income from its journal. Free reserves stood at £231,525, significantly exceeding the trustees' estimated requirement of £131,000 for 2026. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor WENDY KAY SIGLEchair
• Dr Benjamin Michael Wilson
• Dr James William Robards
• Jose Manuel Aburto
• Professor Alice Reid
• Professor Arkadiusz Wisniowski
• Professor Hill Kulu
• Professor Ridhi Kashyap
• Professor Romola Davenport · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Sabu Padmadas
• Professor Tiziana Leone

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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• Property Research Trust Limited income £93k
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR POPULATION STUDIES income £88k
• INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES income £4.1m
• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• THE PEOPLE'S RECOVERY PROJECT income £213k
• THE SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION income £690k

Side by side with its peers

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