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Registered charity · London

The Royal African Society

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £765k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.royalafricansociety.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£765k£1.1m
  • 2023£599k£822k
  • 2022£1.0m£861k
Earlier years
  • 2021£651k£677k
  • 2020£520k£564k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE WITHIN OUR UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, AS WELL AS OTHER COUNTRIES, THE SPREAD AND INCREASE OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLES AND COUNTRIES OF AFRICA; TO FOSTER AND STRENGTHEN THE RELATIONSHIPS EXISTING BETWEEN OUR SAID UNITED KINGDOM AND THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES OF AFRICA; AND TO ENCOURAGE THE GROWTH OF INTEREST IN AFRICA AMONG THE PEOPLE OF OUR SAID UNITED KINGDOM AND AMONG THE PEOPLE OF OTHER COUNTRIES.

Grants received

5 grants · £360,000 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

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Board analysis for researchers

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

6.4y median 5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Other Charitable Purposes 9Education/training 2

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

Arts and leisure 2Other services 1Professional services 1

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£765k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 8.3 in 2020

10 from 8 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
1062764
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 20TH MARCH 1968
Contact on the register
02070745176 · ras@soas.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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