# THE RAY SOCIETY

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 208082
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Other
- **Registered:** Sept. 22, 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=208082


## Contact

- **Address:** NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON
- **Postcode:** SW7 5BD
- **Phone:** 02079425564
- **Email:** honsec@raysociety.org.uk
- **Website:** www.raysociety.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** THE PUBLICATION OF WORKS PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES.

**Activities:** The Society's purpose is to publish learned works on natural history, with special but not exclusive relevance to the British flora and fauna, which might not otherwise be published as considered not to be commercially viable.

**Area of benefit:** NATIONAL




## Classification

- **How:** Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- **Who:** Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 31, 2024 | £7497 | £6941 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2023 | £5827 | £1893 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2022 | £7897 | £18921 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £5103 | £8500 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £13242 | £15282 | — | — |



## Trustees

- DR GILLIAN MARGARET MAPSTONE
- Dr Andrea Waeschenbach — appointed Oct. 27, 2015
- Dr BRIAN SPOONER
- Dr David John Nicholas Hind — appointed March 21, 2012
- Dr David Morritt — appointed March 22, 2011
- Dr Hugh Frank Carter — appointed March 26, 2024
- Dr Lucy Woodall — appointed March 21, 2012
- Dr PAUL FREDERICK CLARK
- Dr PHILLIP JAMES CRIBB — appointed March 12, 1988
- Dr Peter Gasson — appointed March 15, 2016
- Dr Richard Preece — appointed March 15, 2010
- Dr Tammy Horton — appointed March 14, 2023
- Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds — appointed March 15, 2015
- Ms Clare Valentine — appointed March 24, 2015
- PENNY EVANS
- Sharron-Marie Robbins — appointed March 29, 2020
- William Clifford John Beharrell — appointed March 26, 2024