# THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 207325
- **Other names:** SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, SPR
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** Dec. 31, 1962
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=207325


## Contact

- **Address:** 1 VERNON MEWS, WEST KENSINGTON, LONDON
- **Postcode:** W14 0RL
- **Phone:** 02079378984
- **Email:** secretary@spr.ac.uk
- **Website:** www.spr.ac.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** TO SEEK, COLLECT, AND OBTAIN INFORMATION RESPECTING AND GENERALLY TO INVESTIGATE THE PHENOMENA COMMONLY KNOWN AS PSYCHICAL OR AS SPIRITUALISTIC INCLUDING HYPNOTISM, SOMNAMBULISM THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE AND ALL MATTERS OF A KINDRED NATURE.

**Activities:** Publication of informative journals.  Operation of lending and reading library.  Holding of lectures and conferences.  Provision of education and advice.  Award of grants in aid of research.

**Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** Education/training
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 30, 2024 | £163348 | £295953 | — | — |
| Sept. 30, 2023 | £117005 | £276107 | — | — |
| Sept. 30, 2022 | £112514 | £226498 | — | — |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | £431416 | £235178 | — | — |
| Sept. 30, 2020 | £103176 | £220858 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **Emeritus Professor Caroline Agnes Watt** (Chair) — appointed June 5, 2025
- ADRIAN RYAN — appointed April 25, 2002
- ALAN MURDIE — appointed Nov. 4, 1999
- Ashley Knibb — appointed Sept. 14, 2023
- CIARAN FARRELL — appointed April 29, 2017
- DR GRAHAM KIDD — appointed Feb. 5, 2015
- Dr Ann Winsper — appointed Sept. 14, 2023
- Dr BARRIE GEORGE COLVIN — appointed Jan. 27, 2014
- Dr CALLUM ELLIOTT COOPER — appointed May 11, 2017
- Dr DAVID NICHOLAS ROUSSEAU — appointed April 3, 1997
- Dr DAVID VERNON — appointed Jan. 11, 2018
- Dr DEBORAH ERICKSON — appointed Dec. 18, 2014
- Dr LIAM PAUL RUICKBIE — appointed May 11, 2017
- Dr MELVYN JOHN WILLIN — appointed April 3, 1997
- Dr Malcolm Barlow Schofield — appointed July 15, 2020
- Dr RICHARD STANLEY BROUGHTON
- Dr THOMAS HARRY RUFFLES PHD — appointed Nov. 1, 1990
- Dr ZOFIA WEAVER — appointed Oct. 19, 2018
- JOHN FRASER
- JULIE ANNE ROUSSEAU — appointed April 25, 2002
- MARIAN BARTON — appointed Sept. 12, 2013
- PROFESSOR BERNARD JOHN CARR MA, PHD — appointed April 4, 1974
- PROFESSOR CHRIS ROE
- PROFESSOR EMERITUS ADRIAN DAVID PARKER — appointed Aug. 4, 2016
- ROBERT MCLUHAN — appointed Nov. 29, 2012
- STEVEN PARSONS — appointed Oct. 19, 2018
- TyLean Tuijl — appointed July 20, 2023