BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL RESEARCH EXPEDITIONARY SOCIETY

Registered charity 277893 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B M R E S

Major expeditions studying the renal and cardiovascular responses to acute exposure to high altitude and baseline hypoxia experiments in Birmingham and Coventry

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH INTO MEDICAL PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY MAN IN EXTREME CLIMATIC CONDITIONS INTOY THE DISEASES CAUSED BY SUCH CONDITIONS, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£169k

Latest spending

£149k

Registered

1979

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted and restricted funds of £169,496 at the end of the period, with a net increase of £20,831. The document notes that the charity's asset, the BMRES Woodland, remains in good condition. No specific reserves policy target or unrestricted reserve figure separate from the total fund balance is explicitly stated for comparison.

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 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
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Benjamin James Talks
Dr Kelsey Elizabeth Joyce
Dr Timothy John Clarke
Professor Arthur Bradwell
Professor Mark Edward George Edsell

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£169k	£149k
05/04/2024	£11k	£26k
05/04/2023	£73k	£73k
05/04/2022	£20k	£26k
05/04/2021	£8k	£16k

Common questions

Is BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL RESEARCH EXPEDITIONARY SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted and restricted funds of £169,496 at the end of the period, with a net increase of £20,831. The document notes that the charity's asset, the BMRES Woodland, remains in good condition. No specific reserves policy target or unrestricted reserve figure separate from the total fund balance is explicitly stated for comparison. Its FY2025 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 EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST	2	£8k
THE ROGER & DOUGLAS TURNER CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£24k
CITY CHURCH BIRMINGHAM	1	£17k
WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£15k
THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£11k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£10k
GEORGE FENTHAM BIRMINGHAM CHARITY	1	£7k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF IPSWICH ST JOHN THE BAPTIST WITH ST ANDREW	1	£4k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEBRE MEDHANIT KIDUS AMANUEL ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHEDO CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM.

DEBRE MEDHANIT KIDUS AMANUEL ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHEDO CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM income £243k
THE LORD AUSTIN TRUST income £134k
HIGHBURY income £115k
BIRMINGHAM CITY MISSION income £1.4m
YEMENI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION IN GREATER MANCHESTER income £222k
BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL RESEARCH EXPEDITIONARY SOCIETY	£169k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
DEBRE MEDHANIT KIDUS AMANUEL ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHEDO CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM FY2025	£243k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LORD AUSTIN TRUST FY2025	£134k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HIGHBURY FY2025	£115k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BIRMINGHAM CITY MISSION FY2025	£1.4m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YEMENI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION IN GREATER MANCHESTER FY2025	£222k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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