ANATOMICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 290469 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

THE PROMOTION, DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE ANATOMICAL SCIENCES, THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECT AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ANATOMICAL SCIENCES.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £7,564,790, with unrestricted reserves standing at £7,019,503. The charity reports a strong financial position supported by journal publications and significant investment gains of £794,921. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Abigail Tucker — President (source)
• Dr Jeremy Mortimer — Honorary Treasurer (source)
• Professor Joanna Matthan — Honorary Secretary (source)
• Associate Professor Denis Barry — Deputy Honorary Treasurer (source)
• Professor Cecilia Brassett — Deputy Honorary Secretary (source)
• Dr Hannah Shaw — Education Officer (source)
• Dr Caroline Curtin — Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Officer (source)
• Dr Asha Venkatesh — Membership Officer (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).

• Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Scotland — “New Funded PhD Partnership with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Scotland” (source page)
• Epilepsy Research Institute UK — “Epilepsy Research Institute UK/AS Co-Funded PhD” (source page)
• RNID — “RNID/AS Co-Funded PhD” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~62.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (89% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Rys Smith
• Dr Asha Venkatesh
• Dr Caroline Curtin
• Dr Denis Barry
• Dr Hannah Margaret Shaw
• Dr Jeremy Mortimer
• Dr Joanna Matthan
• Dr Luke Reid
• Dr Lyndsay Murray
• Dr Neil Thomas
• Dr Scott Ian Abbott Paterson
• Dr Sheona Shankland
• Prof Abigail Saffron Tucker
• Prof. Thomas Malcom Wishart
• Professor Cecilia Brassett

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

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR LIMITED.

• ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR LIMITED income £675k
• BRITISH PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £9.9m
• THE CHARTERED SOCIETY OF FORENSIC SCIENCES income £508k
• The Society for Cardiac Science and Technology LTD income £193k
• MERSEY SCHOOL OF ANAESTHESIA income £418k
• MANSFIELD AND SUTTON ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY CIO income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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