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Registered charity · Worcester

The Royal Life Saving Society - U.K.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £6.2m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Amateur Sport
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.rlss.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Life Saving Society - U.K.
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£6.2m£5.8m
  • 2023£6.0m£5.8m
  • 2022£5.4m£5.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£4.4m£4.2m
  • 2020£4.8m£4.5m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND SAVE HUMAN LIVES BY PREVENTING DROWNING AND IN PARTICULAR TO:(A) PROMOTE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE SAVING OF LIFE FROM DROWNING; THE RESUSCITATION OF THE APPARENTLY DROWNED; THE TECHNIQUES OF RESUSCITATION AND FIRST AID GENERALLY; AND THE SKILLS OF LIFEGUARDING. AND (B) PROMOTE THE SPORT OF LIFE SAVING

Grants received

3 grants · £8,131 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • Sussex Community Foundation £8002020-11-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,1202007-05-15
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,2112005-12-07
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

9 trustees on the board

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Amateur Sport 9Education/training 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 12Retail and trade 4Finance 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£6.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.4 in 2020

79 from 57 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1046060
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/03/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/04/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/10/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/05/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/05/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/07/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/06/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 JUL 2017 as amended on 19 Oct 2019 as amended on 10 Oct 2020 as amended on 15 Nov 2023
Companies House
Company number 03033781 · Active
Contact on the register
03003230096 · info@rlss.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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