The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

Analysis

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00721213). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine reported income of £1.1m and spending of £497k, leaving 54% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £814k to £1.1m (+33%), an average of +7.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Swedish Folk High School (£1.1m), Pata (UK) (£1.1m) and St Paul's Schools Foundation (£1.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 81% and investments 17%. Charitable activities took 84% of spending and raising funds 8.3%. Reserves of £8.9m would cover about 198 months of spending at that rate.