THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Charity number: 1168330
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
To support the science of palaeontology and related subjects by publication of original research, by the holding of meetings, by the award of grants, and by such other means as the trustees may determine from time to time
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2023
Total income: £464,971
Total expenditure: £484,820
People
17 Trustee(s)
9 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Who the charity helps:
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- India
- Iran
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Madagascar
- Malta
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Northern Ireland
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Scotland
- Slovakia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Zambia
Governance
Registration history:
- 20 July 2016: CIO registration
- 12 September 2017: Funds received from 276369 THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
- PALASS (Working name)
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints 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
- Paying staff
- 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
17 Trustee(s)
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| Professor Michael James Benton OBE FRS | Trustee | 01 January 2025 |
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| Professor Barry Harvey Lomax | Trustee | 01 January 2025 |
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| Dr Martin Ross Smith | Trustee | 01 January 2025 |
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| Professor Philip Conrad James Donoghue FRS | Trustee | 01 January 2025 |
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| Dr Nidia Alvarez-Armada | Trustee | 01 January 2024 |
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| Dr Richard Peter Dearden | Trustee | 01 January 2024 |
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| Dr Joseph Neil Keating | Trustee | 01 January 2024 |
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| Dr Laura Beatriz Porro | Trustee | 01 January 2024 |
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| Prof. Daniela Natalie Schmidt | Trustee | 01 January 2024 |
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| Dr Orla Grace Bath Enright | Trustee | 01 January 2023 |
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| Dr Robert Stephen Sansom | Trustee | 01 January 2023 |
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| Dr Harriet Bethany Drage | Trustee | 01 January 2023 |
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| Dr Elizabeth May Dowding | Trustee | 01 January 2022 |
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| Dr Alan Richard Tozer Spencer | Trustee | 01 January 2022 |
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| Dr Susannah Catherine Rose Lanaway | Trustee | 01 January 2021 |
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| Dr Manabu Sakamoto | Trustee | 01 January 2021 |
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| Dr Russell James Garwood | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/12/2019 | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | ||
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Total gross income | £449.72k | £405.36k | £399.06k | £394.47k | £464.97k | |
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Total expenditure | £491.68k | £361.23k | £346.40k | £487.29k | £484.82k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 17 October 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | 17 October 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 25 October 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | 25 October 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 21 September 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | 21 September 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 27 October 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | 27 October 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2019 | 28 September 2020 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2019 | 28 September 2020 | On Time | Download Open in new window |