British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition

Analysis

British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Durham. It was registered in March 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02543446). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition reported income of £299k and spending of £276k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £27k to £299k (+1013%), an average of +83% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 1331%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Support Tiffin Girls' School Company (£298k), The Henrietta Barnett School Trust (£299k) and St Sophia's School Benevolent Fund Limited (£298k).