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Summary of the Para 1.17 The objects ofthe Society set out in its Constitution
purposes of the are to advance the education
of the public
in the
charity as set out in social history of medicine
and
in pursuance
of that
its governing purpose
to promote research
and disseminate
the
document results.
Summary
activities		 of the main
in relation to		 Para 1.17and
1.19		 The charity's
main activities
in furtherance
of its
objects are the editing and production
ofajournal,
those purposes for Social History ofMedicine
the public benefit,
in		 htt s://academic.
ou .com/shm
which includes
particular, the research articles and book reviews. Also, the
activities, projects or production
ofaseries of scholarly books, Social
services identified in Histories ofMedicine
the accounts. htt
s://manchesteruniversit
ress.co.uk/series/social
histories-of-medicine/.
The Society maintains
an
international
membership,
holds a biennial
conference
and sponsors selected other relevant
scholarly conferences. The Society also represents
the subject
in relevant
policy-making
bodies.
Publication
in our outlets and attendance
at
conferences
is open to non-members.
Membership
for students
and the unwaged
is subsidized
with the
added benefit of reduced conference charges.
Support
is also offered through
bursaries
for students
and early career members
to attend
relevant
conferences.
With its activities the Society aims to
foster understanding
for and raise the profile of the
social history of medicine
both in the UK and
internationally.
This includes
lobbying
activities
relevant to members,
and more broadly,
history of
medicine as a discipline,
and responding
to issues		 in
relation to the strategies
of relevant
funding
bodies
such as the Arts and Humanities
Research
Council,
the Economic and Social Research Council or the
Wellcome Trust. Funds raised from sales of the
journal and other relevant
publications
enable the
trustees to fund its commitments
and maintain
a
financial reserve.
Statement confirming Para 1.18 The trustees
of the charity have paid due regard to
whether the trustees the
uidance
ublished
b
the Charit
Commission

SORP reference
Para 1.38
Policy on grant making
Para 1.38
Policy on social investment
including program related
investment
Para 1.38
Contribution made by
volunteers
Other

Achieve men ts and Per formance
SORP reference
As detailed
in each section below,
in 2022
the charity resumed
more fully its usual,
although
there was continued
impact from
Summary
of the main
achievements
ofthe charity,		 Para 1.20 the Covid-19 pandemic
with a slow return
to in person conferences
and some travel
identifying
charity's		 the
work		 difference the
has made to		 restrictions
still in place internationally.
The
Society's bi-annual
conference
(and 50'"
the circumstances of its Anniversary
commemoration)
postponed
beneficiaries
and		 any wider from 2020 did take place in July 2022 at
benefits to society as a Swansea
University.
The Society continued
whole. as usual
with publication
activities
producing
an academic peer-reviewed
journal
and book series. The Society also
held the first activities due to funding
received from Wellcome Trust.
Niembershi p
OUP Reports indicate that there were 190
members
at the end of 2022, which
is down
on the previous year (236 members
in
2021).A downward
trend as a
conse uence of the continued
im act of the
Covid pandemic
with restrictions
and a		 slow
return to in person conferences.
Such
events are useful
in attracting
new student
members.
In terms of a breakdown
for		 the
membership
figures for 2022, student
membership
has fallen slightly
remains		 and
forms 27%(30%in 2021;30.3% in 2020;
38.7% in 2019;30.7% in 2018)while
individual
membership
figures have risen
slightly to 60%(57% in 2021;55.5%2020;
49.6% in 2019;57.2% in 2018).
Seniors make up 9%with developing
countries
at 3%and unwaged
at 1%.
For geographical
location, the majority		 of
our members
continue
to come from the
UK, 60% in 2022, 58% in 2021,58.7% in
2020;59.5% in 2019;53.9% in 2018)while
most of the remaining
members
are from
North America at 14%in 2022 (13%in
2021, 11.8% in 2020; 11.7% in 2019;
14.4% in 2018).European
membership
stands at about 10%(13%in 2021 15%in
2020; 14%in 2019;14%in 2018).
The membership
rates for 2022 were:
Student/Reduced:
227.00,$53.00,641.00.
Regular: 250.00,$101.00, &76.00.We have
two members
who do not subscribe
via
OUP and their payments
are recorded		 in
the accounts.
From 2023 there
will be a
new membership
rate with online only
access to the journal at a20%discounted
rate on the print subscription.
Publications
The Society's journal Social History of
Medicine received a similar number
of
submissions
in 2022 with 182(180 in 2021;
196 in 2020). The Society published
4
issues of the journal
in 2022 with a total of
56 articles (55 in 2021) and book reviews at
65 (65 in 2020), due to increased
page
allowance.
The book series with Manchester
University
Press, Social Histories ofMedicine
continues to prosper
with a total of 29
books and 2 in press. Since the last return
books published
were:
Joris Vandendriessche
and Benoit Majerus
(eds.) Medical histories ofBelgium. New
narratives
on health, care and citizenshipin
the nineteenth
and twentieth
centuries.
(October 2021).
Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand (eds.)
Placards, posters, and prescriptions:
Cultural histories ofthe National Health
Servicein
Britain
June 2022.
Janet Weston and Hannah J.Elizabeth
(eds.) Histories ofHIVIAIDS in Western
Europe: New and regional perspectives.
(August 2022).
Waltraud
Ernst and Thomas
Mueller (eds.)
Alcohol, psychiatry
and society.
Comparative
and transnational
perspectives,
c. 1700-1990s(October
2022).
One new initiative
is a book development
award (a maximum
of 2x22000 prizes per
year) for five years starting
in 2022 to assist
scholars and encourage
the forming
of
book proposals
in the social history of
medicine.
Four digital issues of the Society's Gazette
were produced
and distributed
via email to
members
and made available
on the
Society website.
Conferencesf Workshops
The Society invites applications
for
conference
funding
three times a year.
A total off6368.00 in grants was awarded
in 2022 to support conferences
in the
history of medicine
(total paid out for 2022
=21980 —made up of F250 from
conference
held
in late 2021 plus 21730
from 2022 conferences).
A total of22013
from 2022 awards
is carried over to 2023
as events were postponed
and from the
2022 awards a total of 22625.00 is still to
be claimed).
Conference
awards
included:
'Compassion
and Care: Emotions
and
Experience
in the care of Children
through
History'
held at John Rylands
Institute
Manchester
'Oxford
History of Medicine at 50' held at
Oxford University
'Learning
to Cut Bandage and Cure' held		 in
Paris.
The Society held its own biennial
conference
in July 2022 hosted
by
Swansea
University.
This was supported		 by
the Wellcome and the Society supported
student
travel bursaries
and keynote
speakers. The Society also used funds to
offer administrative
support at the
conference and
to conduct an EDI
assessment
and re ort at the conference
and present an update
on the Society's
anti-racism
workshop
to conference
delegates
(recorded
in EC expenses).
Student and early career travel bursaries
A total off4459.88 in travel bursaries
was
paid for students
and early career
academics to attend
and present papers		 at
international
and UK based conferences.
The Society honoured
awards
for speakers
awarded
in 2020 who did eventually
present at the Society's 2022 conference in
Swansea.
Prize winners
The Society awards an annual
prize, the
Roy Porter Essay Prize worth 2500, for the
best original
unpublished
essay
in the
social history of medicine.
In 2022 the
Society also awarded a further f100as
prize for short listed essay.
The 2021 Roy Porter Essay Prize winner,
as announced
at the Society's AGM in
2022 was Martijn van der Meer. The
winning
essay is titled: 'Sown without care:
Dutch eugenicists
and their call for
optimising
development
conditions, 1919-
1939'.The entry shortlisted
for the essay
prize was Margaret
Williams's
'Searching
for Care in a Segregated
City: Detroit's
Black Hospitals
and the Integration
of
American
Healthcare
1945-75'.
There were a total of 8 entrants.
The winner
of the 2022 Roy Porter Essay
Prize is scheduled
to be announced
in
autumn
2023.
Web and Social Media
Our website and social media has
continued
to perform despite a transitional
period between
officers. The website
continues to have international
reach with
the majority of site visitors from the UK,
followed
by the United States and is in line
with previous years. Search engines
and
Twitter platform are the main routes people
access the main website. The most visited
sections of the website for visitors are the
home page, followed
by Calls for
expressions
of interest.
Social media has continued
to grow, with
Twitter followers
at 7009followers
(up from
8429) and Facebook has seen a decline in
engagement
but views have increased.
Wellcome Funded
Events and Networks
Grants
As a result of the successful
grant
applications
in 2021 (see additional
information).
The Society held its first event
4-5 July 2022 in Birmingham
(UK) with a
residential
workshop
on anti-racism.
There
were 30attendees
on each day. As a
result, further events and initiatives
are
planned
for 2023.
The first round of Network Grant
applications
took place with a deadline
of
31 May 2022. There were two awards of
the Wellcome-funded
Society for the Social
History of Medicine Research Community
Networks
Both begin activities
in 2023.
Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University
of
London),
Kate Davison
(University
of
Edinburgh),
Katherine
Hubbard
(University
of Surrey),
Mo Moulton
(University
of
Birmingham),
Helen Spandler
(University		 of
Central
Lancashire),
&Rebecca Wynter
(University
of Amsterdam)
- 'Twentieth-
Century
Psy-Disciplines
and LGBTQIA+
Communities:
Histories
and Contexts of
'Conversion
Therapies"
Peder Clark (University
of Strathclyde)
&
Jamie Banks (Loughborough
University)—
'JOINT: An Early Career Drugs History
Research
Network.
Establishing
a drugs
history research
network
for Early Career
Researchers
in the UK and Ireland'
Additional information (optional)
You ma choose to include further statements where relevant
about
In October 2021 the society applied for two
grants from the Wellcome Trust. One for
Achievements against Para 1.41 825,000 to fund Society events (over 48
objectives set months). The application
was successful
and grant funds are administered
via the
University
of Strathclyde.
Wellcome funds
will enable
bringing
scholars together for
physical
meetings
is essential
to create the
safe space needed for such sensitive
discussions as anti-racism,
facilitated
by a
clinical professional
and academics
experienced
in this area, and regarding
concerns about careers.
Another grant application
for f25,000was
to support
the objective of directing
funding
to networking
and networked
events. These
serial activities promise the space to be
both innovative
and sustained; a space that
has often been limited
in the field of the
history of medicine
and health.		 What these What these
sustained conversations
will do is provide
room for
creativity and thinking,
offering
transformative
scholarship
and		 assuredly
facilitating links and work that would
otherwise prove impossible,
especially		 due
to our current
availability
of Rf500 per
conference
funding
application,		 limited so
as to support as many activities as
possible. The Society plans to fund
between four and seven networks
with		 a
maximum of 26000 per award, with two
rounds
of applications
for support
in 2022
and 2023.
Performance
of fundraising
activities against objectives		 Para 1.41
set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other

inanc ial
Review		 ial
Review
Review of the charity's Para 1.21 The charity's assets increased
during 2022,
financial position at the end amounting
to F127,822 in cash reserves at
of the period the end of the period. Although
there has
been an increase
in applications
for
conference
funding
and travel bursaries,
applications
have not yet reached
pre-
pandemic
levels.
Statement
explaining		 the Para 1.22 The Society has a current
policy of holding
policy for holding reserves reserves to cover one year's cover cash
stating why they are held flow requirements
and for any potential
gaps
in income.
In addition
extra reserves
are being held should the running
of the
journal be affected as aconsequence
of
Plan Sand publishers'
commitment
to
transitioning
their journals to open access
through
the Transformative
Journal
model
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s://www. coalition-s. or
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com
liant-transformative-'ournals/
The EC
has set a total reserve off60,000 until the
impact is clear.
Reserves are held
in a savings account.
The trustees
recognise that the current
level of reserves are higher than the set
amount,
due to the impact pandemic
restrictions
and are exploring
ways of
utilising excess reserves.
From discussions
at the 2020 and 2021 AGM and at EC
meetings,
plans have been made to direct
excess reserves towards
more support to
early career scholars and offer paid
internships
within the Society to support
work to address issues of inclusivity
and
diversity
in the field of the social history of
medicine.
Discussions
and further
proposals
will be put forward
in 2023.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 2123,728
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22
reserves
Details of fund materially in Para 1.24
deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 The trustees
have reviewed
major risks.
uncertainties about the Procedures are in place to manage these
charity continuing as a going risks. Income flow has been fairly steady
concern over recent years, and as the Society does
not have employees,
risks are limited.
Issues arising are discussed
during
Executive Committee
meetings. The
Committee
meets three times per year.
Additional
information		 (optional) (optional)
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choose to include further statements		 where relevant about
The charity is almost wholly reliant on the
income generated
by its		 journal and other
The charity's
principal
sources of funds (including		 Para 1.47 publications.
invest much		 As detailed above, we re-
of this into promoting
the
any fundraising) subject through support for conferences
and individual researchers.
Investment
policy and
objectives including
any		 Para 1.46
social investment
policy
adopted
A description
of the principal		 Para 1.48
risks facing the charity
Other

Description of charity's
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 The charity was formed by a written
document Constitution,
which was updated
in		 2012
(trust deed, royal charter) and again
in 2022 and is available		 on the
SSHM website
htt s://sshm. or / orffolio/the-societ /
How is the charity Para 1.25 The charity
is governed
by its trustees,
the
constituted? elected members
of the Executive
(e.g unincorporated Committee
(EC), which meets at least three
association, CIO times a
ear.
Trustee selection
methods		 Para 1.25 The Chairperson
and other officers		 are
including
details of any		 elected by the EC from their members.
EC
constitutional provisions e.g. members
must be members
of the		 Society
election to post or name of and are elected by the membership and
any person or body entitled serve a term ofthree years. The Officers of
to appoint one or more the Society are the Chair, Secretary and
trustees Treasurer
and tenure of office is three years
in each instance. Office holders
may, at the
end of their term of office, complete their
term of EC membership.
Office holders
may
also complete their tenure of office even if
their elected period of membership of the
Executive Committee
has expired.
Candidates
for EC must be proposed
and
seconded
by other members
of the		 Society.
The journal
and book series editors		 are ex
officio members
of the EC (without		 voting
rights) and are not trustees
of the charity.
Additional information (optional)
You ma choose to include further statements where relevant
about
New Executive Committee
members		 are
directed to Charity Commission's
guide,
Policies
adopted		 and procedures
for the induction		 Para 1.51 The Essential Trustee (CC3) which
explains the main legal responsibilities
and training oftrustees trustees
have.
Also, to the National
Council for Voluntary
Organisations
(NOVO) as a suggested
resource to find out more about becoming a
charity trustee.
The charity's
structure
and		 organisational
any wider		 Para 1.51
network
with		 which the
charity works
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other

Charit name Societ
for the Social Histor		 Societ
for the Social Histor		 Societ
for the Social Histor		 of Medicine
Other name the chari uses
Re istered charit number 278414
Charity's principal address University Of Kent
School of History, Room N3
Rutherford College
Canterbury
Kent
CT2 7NZ
mes ofthe charity trust ees who manage the charity charity
Trustee name Office (ifany) Dates acted
ear		 if not for whole Name
to a		 of person (or body) entitled
oint trustee
if an
Dr Rosemary Chair/EC
Member		 Stepped down as Chair
Cresswell on
1 July 2022
Dr Victoria Bates Secretary Stepped down 1 July
2022
Dr Anna Treasurer Stepped down 1 July
Greenwood 2022
4 Dr Beatriz Pichel EC Member Elected 1 July 2022
Dr Laura Kelly EC Member Stepped down 1 July
2022
Dr Cara Dobbing EC Member Stepped down 1 July
2022
Dr Rebecca EC Member Re-elected 1 July 2022
Wynter
Dr Clare Hickman EC Member Stepped down 1 July
2022
Dr Richard McKay EC Treasurer from 1 July
Member/Treasurer 2022
Dr Stephen EC Member Re-elected 1 July 2022
Mawdsley
Dr Samiksha EC Member
Sehrawat
12 Dr Lisa Smith EC Member/Chair Chair from 1 July 2022
13 Dr Vanessa Heggie EC Member
14 Dr Claire Jones EC
Member/Secretary		 Secretary
2022		 from 1 July
15
16
17
18
19
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unds held as cust odi
Description
of the assets
held
in this capacity
Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity's objects
Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation
of such assets
from the charity's
own
assets

Additional
information
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information
(		 optional)
Names and addresses
of		 advisers (Optional information)
Type of Name Address
adviser
Financial Paul Cowham, MA, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham Street,
FCA, DchA Manchester MS 1LE
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

2022 2021
Total Total
Recei ts
Income from charitable activities
Ro alties OUP 24,473 24,249
Ro alties Book Series 1,218 1,531
Editorial Retainer 7,990 3,768
Members hi
Fees		 14 14
33,695 29,562
Investment
income
Interest 97
Total Recei ts 33,792 29,569
Pa ments
Administration
- Exec		 Secretar 6,706 3,406
Honoraria
SHM Co-Editors		 6,000 5,700
Editorial Assistants' Fees 720 600
Editorial Office Ex enses osta e etc 674 727
Editorial Board &Book Series Editorial Ex enses 1,501
Internshi
s/Fellowshi		 s* 2,500
Executive Cttee Meetin Ex enses 4,874
Website & Dro box 216 250
Gazette
fl ers
ublici		 196
23,191 10,879
Conference
Grants		 1,980
Bursaries 4,460 350
Essa
Prize		 888 700
7,328 1,050
Inde
endent
Examination		 550 550
Bank Char es 281 123
Miscellaneous 150
981 673
Total Pa ments 31,500 12,602
Net of recei
ts/
a		 ments 2,292 16,967
Bank+cash brou
ht		 forward 125,530 108,564
Cash sur
lus/deficit		 in the ear 2,292 16,967
Bank+cash carried forward 127,822 125,531