# THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 207325
- **Other names:** SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, SPR
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [00044861](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00044861)
- **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&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=207325


## Contact

- **Address:** 1 VERNON MEWS, WEST KENSINGTON, LONDON
- **Postcode:** W14 0RL
- **Phone:** 020 7937 8984
- **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.




## 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



## Geography

- Throughout England And Wales





## Trustees

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



## Linked charities

- BLENNERHASSETT RESEARCH FUND (207325-1)
- THE FREDERICK W H MYERS MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP FUND (207325-2)
- RESEARCH ENDOWMENT FUND (207325-3)



