BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Registered charity 299041 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting research, scholarship and public interest in the history of philosophy.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER ALL ASPECTS OF THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.

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.

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Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity overspent its income by £7,389 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £79,480 to £72,091. The trustees report that this deficit was driven by increased expenditure on public events and a decrease in income from royalties and membership fees. To address the shortfall, the trustees have implemented cost-saving measures including reducing prize and fellowship awards.

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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ALIX COHEN
• Dr Alexander Douglas
• Dr Angela Breitenbach
• Dr Antonio Salgado Borge
• Dr Caterina Pello'
• Dr Fedor Benevich
• Dr Jeremy Dunham
• Dr John Callanan
• Dr Lea Yvonne Frederique Rachel Cantor
• Dr Rachael Katherine Wiseman
• Dr Sacha Golob
• Dr Sophia Connell
• Dr Tobias Peter Keiling
• Professor Clare Carlisle Tresch
• Professor Julia Anna Sarah Borcherding
• Professor Mogens Laerke
• Professor Susan James · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zita Veronika Toth

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE.

• THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE income £136k
• THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES income £106.2m
• THE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY AND REFLECTION IN EDUCATION income £266k
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES income £156k
• FOUNDATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS income £371k
• THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY income £281k

Side by side with its peers

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