CONFLICT RESEARCH SOCIETY

Registered charity 306136 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Conflict Research Society fosters research and knowledge about the processes, methods and effectiveness of conflict, and the potential for cooperation and reconciliation. It provides information about conflict research through the website and brings together academics and practitioners for an annual conference on conflict and peace research.

Objects

TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO AND THE EXTENSION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD OF CONFLICT RESEARCH

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£35k

Latest spending

£36k

Registered

1967

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £721 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £49,127. The document does not disclose any specific reserves policy target or independent audit opinion.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 10
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 10
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 10
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

ALAN HUGH MIALLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Christine Cheng
Dr Jennifer Hodge
Dr Kristin Bakke
Hilary Janet Adams · trustee of 9 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of London · Kent · Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£35k	£36k
31/12/2024	£52k	£50k
31/12/2023	£32k	£34k
31/12/2022	£27k	£20k
31/12/2021	£11k	£11k

Common questions

Is CONFLICT RESEARCH SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £721 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £49,127. The document does not disclose any specific reserves policy target or independent audit opinion.

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 JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£341k
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	2	£75k
Founders Pledge Ltd	1	£1.1m
PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION	1	£150k
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION	1	£136k
THE LANKELLYCHASE FOUNDATION	1	£122k
NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£19k
THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY	1	£16k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONCORDIS INTERNATIONAL TRUST.

CONCORDIS INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £3.7m
CONCILIATION RESOURCES income £12.7m
SOCIETY FOR LONGITUDINAL AND LIFE COURSE STUDIES income £125k
THE SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION income £690k
PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED income £176k
CENTER ON LONG-TERM RISK income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CONFLICT RESEARCH SOCIETY	£35k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CONCORDIS INTERNATIONAL TRUST FY2025	£3.7m	—	—	below	—	material uncertainty
CONCILIATION RESOURCES FY2025	£12.7m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
SOCIETY FOR LONGITUDINAL AND LIFE COURSE STUDIES FY2025	£125k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FY2025	£690k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED FY2025	£176k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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