THE FELLOWSHIP OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE

Registered charity 313355 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FELLOWSHIP OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine publishes the international Postgraduate Medical Journal and the Health Policy and Technology journal and holds a range of seminars and conferences.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY TO THE PROMOTION OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE FROM A CENTRE IN LONDON BY: 4.1 ARRANGING LECTURES, DEMONSTRATIONS, DISCUSSIONS AND EXHIBITIONS; 4.2 PUBLISHING A JOURNAL AND OTHER BOOKS, PAPERS AND CIRCULARS AND MAKING MEDICAL LITERATURE AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS; AND 4.3 AWARDING EDUCATIONAL, TRAVELLING AND RESEARCH GRANTS OF SUCH AMOUNT AND UPON SUCH CONDITIONS TO SUCH PROMISING STUDENTS HOLDING MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS OF A UNIVERSITY IN SOME PART OF THE WORLD AS MAY BE DECIDED BY THE DIRECTORS; AND, IN FURTHERANCE OR CONNECTION WITH THE ABOVE, THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE STUDY, GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF, OR RESEARCH IN ANY BRANCH OF MEDICINE

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £8,866,842, which the trustees consider adequate and not excessive relative to their policy of maintaining sufficient funds for working capital and temporary shortfalls. The charity reported a net income increase to £1,294,824 for the year, driven by charitable activities and investment gains, with no employees and minimal governance costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HW Fisher Audit. Discloses 5 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00721213 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Donald Singer — President (source)
• Peter Barnes — Council Member (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DIN, Shahida, Dr — director, appointed 22/01/2026on trustee list
• BRACKENRIDGE, Anna Louise, Dr — director, appointed 17/11/2025on trustee list
• YANG, Yu-Wei Tony, Professor — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• LAZZARO, Carlo, Professor — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• OXENHAM, Helen, Dr — director, appointed 23/07/2024on trustee list
• BAKER, Kerri, Dr — director, appointed 18/03/2024on trustee list
• DEWHURST, Neil, Dr — director, appointed 27/02/2024on trustee list
• CHEUNG, Bernard Man Yung — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• ELTE, Jan Willem Frederik, Dr — director, appointed 25/11/2016on trustee list
• VALE, John Allister, Professor — director, appointed 25/11/2016on trustee list
• BREAMS SECRETARIES LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 31/03/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~213.9 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 (81% 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: 4.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bernard Man Yung CHEUNG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Anne Louise Brackenridge
• Dr Helen Oxenham
• Dr Jan Willem Frederik Elte
• Dr Kerri Baker
• Dr Neil Dewhurst
• Dr Shahida Din
• Professor Albert Ferro · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Carlo Lazzaro
• Professor John Allister Vale
• Professor Peter Barnes
• Professor Y Tony Yang

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 ROYAL GLAMORGAN POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE ASSOCIATION.

• ROYAL GLAMORGAN POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £114k
• PENINSULA MEDICAL FOUNDATION income £476k
• THE FACULTY OF PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM income £2.2m
• ASSOCIATION OF PAKISTANI PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM FOUNDATION income £747k
• THE FACULTY OF FORENSIC & LEGAL MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS income £1.0m
• FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS income £237k

Side by side with its peers

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