THE BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Registered charity 268762 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B G S, BGS

The Society aims to be the pre-eminent professional body for practitioners engaged in the specialty health care of older people. Our mission is to improve the health care of older people throughout the UK. We hold scientific meetings, publish approved papers and promote research, education and training in all aspects of geriatric medicine.

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 charity achieved an overall deficit of £492,561 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased operational expenditure and exceptional staff costs. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased to £3,825,918, which remains above the stated policy target of one year's unrestricted expenditure budgeted for the following year (£1,534,656). The trustees confirm that the Society is able to cover potential future operational deficits out of reserves without impacting the delivery of its Strategic Plan.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — British Geriatrics Society (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Martin Vernon — President Elect (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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.5 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 (93% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Jugdeep Kaur DHESIchair
• Andrew James Cole
• Dr Alison Falconer
• Dr Amit Arora
• Dr Deborah Alexandria Gompertz
• Dr Elizabeth Mary LAWN
• Dr Karl Robert DAVIS
• Dr Richard William Stuart BIRAM
• Dr Sarah Elizabeth TRUE
• Lyndsey DUNN
• Professor Bernadette McGuinness
• Stephanie Jane Harland · 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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HEART FAILURE.

• THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HEART FAILURE income £1.1m
• THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HAEMATOLOGY income £3.3m
• THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY income £21.9m
• THE PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £1.5m
• BRITISH MENOPAUSE SOCIETY income £2.2m
• THE VASCULAR SOCIETY income £590k

Side by side with its peers

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