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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY

Nurturing the discipline of statistics through publications, conferences and meetings, professional qualifications & exams.Promoting the discipline through educational activities & careers information and by promoting best practice amongst, and seeking to influence, all who use statistics
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are 37 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£3,108£2,410£698£0£4,504£3,91019.5261,400
31/12/21£2,236£2,156£80£0£2,974£2,50714261,400
31/12/20£2,005£2,125£-120£0£2,482£1,94811251,400
31/12/19£2,903£2,729£173£0£3,696£3,10913.7301,400
31/12/18£3,037£2,866£171£54£3,626£3,42214.3291,400
31/12/17£2,621£2,380£240£54£3,227£3,02515.2270
31/12/16£2,353£2,218£135£82£3,146£2,99916.2270
31/12/15£2,051£2,119£-67£253£3,723£3,60220.4230
31/12/14£2,066£1,923£143£306£3,637£3,54122.1220
31/12/13£2,087£1,904£183£248£3,878£3,80624190
31/12/12£2,103£1,887£217£292£3,325£3,24220.6190
31/12/11£1,983£1,830£154£305£3,171£3,08620.2190
31/12/10£1,832£1,779£54£360£2,726£2,64417.8190
31/12/09£1,835£1,896£-61£263£2,422£2,35014.9160
31/12/08£1,895£1,942£-47£260£2,778£2,68316.6150
31/12/07£1,453£1,467£-14£48£3,102£3,00924.6150
31/12/06£1,410£1,380£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£1,377£1,226£150n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£1,216£1,200£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 20%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 87%
Reserves/Spending: 19.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 61 years

www.rss.org.uk

info@rss.org.uk

02076388998

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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Professional associations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
DCMS - DSF - RSS 2021 International Conference
£9,570 01/07/2021
This grant aims to support the UK business events industry to restart domestic events. Financial support is offered to kick start the return of business events and to showcase that the UK is ready to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Statisticians for Society
£396,121 25/10/2019
59
Statisticians for Society
National Lottery Community Fund - Development Grant
£48,001 12/09/2017
12
This funding will be used to pilot and test a programme to match statisticians with voluntary and community organisations across the UK.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (37)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 31/37 persons

  • BLAISE EGAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Statistician
  • DARIA GROMYKO Appointed: 2022
  • DR ALTEA LORENZO-ARRIBAS Appointed: 2023
  • DR ANDREW GARRETT (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • DR ANJALI MAZUMDER Appointed: 2021
  • DR EMILY GRANGER Appointed: 2023
  • DR JOHANNA HUTCHINSON Appointed: 2019
  • DR LOUISA NOLAN Appointed: 2024
  • DR LUCY TEECE Appointed: 2021
  • DR MURRAY POLLOCK Appointed: 2022
  • DR PHILLIPPA SPENCER Appointed: 2023
  • DR RHIANNON EDGE Appointed: 2024
  • DR ROBIN MITRA Appointed: 2021
  • DR SARAH NEVITT Appointed: 2023
  • DR SIMON DAY Appointed: 2024
  • DR SOPHIE CARR Appointed: 2021
  • KEVIN BARNES Appointed: 2020
  • OMAR MCCARTHY Appointed: 2023
  • PROFESSOR BEVERLEY HALE Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR CHRISTL DONNELLY Appointed: 2018
  • PROFESSOR CLARE MORRIS Appointed: 2024
  • PROFESSOR DONALD SIMEON Appointed: 2023
  • PROFESSOR GESINE REINERT Appointed: 2021
  • PROFESSOR MONA KANAAN Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR NEIL SPENCER Appointed: 2024
  • PROFESSOR PAUL ALLIN Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR RICHARD EMSLEY Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR RICHARD SAMWORTH Appointed: 2024
  • PROFESSOR SIR JOHN ASTON Appointed: 2024
  • PROFESSOR STEVEN GILMOUR Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR THOMAS BRENDAN MURPHY Appointed: 2021
  • PROFESSOR UMA SARADA KAMBHAMPATI Appointed: 2022
  • RICHARD PUGH Appointed: 2022
  • SCOTT HEALD Appointed: 2021
  • THEODORE KYPRAIOS Appointed: 2023
  • TIMANDRA HARKNESS Appointed: 2024
  • TRICIA DODD Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/02/1964, number: 306096
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY
12 ERROL STREET
LONDON
EC1Y 8LX

Objectives

TO COLLECT, ARRANGE, DIGEST AND PUBLISH FACTS ILLUSTRATING THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY IN ITS MATERIAL, SOCIAL AND MORAL RELATIONS; THESE FACTS BEING FOR THE MOST PART ARRANGED IN TABULAR FORMS AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE NUMERICAL METHOD.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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