THE BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND INSTITUTE

Registered charity 522852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND INSTITUTE, BMI

The Institute provides or facilitates lectures, courses and classes in art, music, science and literature. A library of over 100,000 volumes is also available for the use of members.

Objects

THE DIFFUSION AND ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND ART.

Area of benefit: BIRMINGHAM AND THE MIDLAND COUNTIES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's gross income exceeded £250,000, triggering the requirement for an independent examiner. The examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe that accounting records were not kept or that financial statements did not accord with those records. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has prepared statements in accordance with FRS 102.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Akil Dowe
• Councillor Adam Higgs
• Dr Alex Round
• Dr Ellen McAdam · trustee of 3 other charities
• Jacqueline Francis · trustee of 3 other charities
• James Fletcher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Paul Hunt
• Mark Eccleston
• Paul Cooper
• Professor Serena Trowbridge · trustee of 2 other charities
• Samina Sadia Ansari
• Simon Andrew Perry
• Thomas James Peart

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST income £12.6m
• SOUTH HILL CENTRE income £567k
• CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £8.6m
• THE HENRY BARBER TRUST income £2.6m
• INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATORS LIMITED income £139k
• BRADFORD MECHANICS INSTITUTE LIBRARY income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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