THE SOCIETY FOR EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

Registered charity 313861 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE STANDING CONFERENCE ON STUDIES IN EDUCATION

To discuss and promote study and research in education by: . Ensuring the quality and status of research and scholarship in educational studies. . Encouraging debate and discussion. . Acting as a public voice for educational studies. . Recognising disctintion by the award of grants, prizes and the status of fellow. . Sponsoring the British Journal of Educational Studies

Objects

TO DISCUSS AND PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN EDUCATION AND TO ACT AS SPONSOR TO THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES.

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 unrestricted reserves of £1,346,686, which the trustees describe as a 'healthy year' with growth in investments. The filing notes that current expenditure is low due to the pandemic and is more than covered by annual income, indicating strong liquidity and financial stability.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Aidan Thompson
• Dr Gurpinder Singh Lalli
• Dr Lottie Hoare
• Dr Richard Race
• Dr Sally Power · trustee of 2 other charities
• PROFESSOR ANDREW PETERSON
• PROFESSOR GAYNOR MARY ATTWOOD
• PROFESSOR JAMES ARTHUR OBE
• Professor HAZEL BRYAN
• Professor James Conroy
• Professor John Haldane
• Professor Stephen Parker
• Professor TOM HARRISON · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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