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Registered charity · London

Royal Academy Trust

  • 19 trustees
  • Income £5.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.royalacademy.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.4m£2.9m
  • 2024£1.5m£2.1m
  • 2023£1.5m£3.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.1m£1.2m
  • 2021£951k£3.3m
Charitable objects

THE MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS IN LONDON THROUGH WHICH IN THE WORDS OF ITS INSTRUMENT OF FOUNDATION AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS LAWS AS APPROVED BY THE SOVEREIGN THE ARTS OF DESIGN MAY BE PROMOTED INCLUDING:- (1) THE MAINTENANCE PRESERVATION AND CARE OF ANY BUILDINGS AND POSSESSIONS AT ANY TIME OR FROM TIME TO TIME OCCUPIED OR OWNED BY THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND HELD ON CHARITABLE TRUSTS (2) THE PRESENTATION OF THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION (AS DEFINED IN SECTION VI OF THE LAWS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS IN LONDON) AND LOAN EXHIBITIONS PREPARED AND MOUNTED FOR THE BENEFIT BOTH OF SCHOLAR AND LAYMAN (3) THE MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY SCHOOLS AS A MEANS OF PROVIDING TRAINING IN THE FINE ARTS (4) THE PRESERVATION OF DIPLOMA WORKS AND OF A LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS AS A CENTRE OF REFERENCE FOR THE FINE ARTS (5) THE MAINTENANCE PRESERVATION AND ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES AS ARE FROM TIME TO TIME SUPPORTED BY THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

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.

19 trustees on the board

3.2y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (5)

5
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 19Education/training 19The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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 6Other services 3Education 2

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£5.4m latest income
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.

49.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 43.4 in 2021

1 from 1 in 2021
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
1067270
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 11 FEBRUARY 1981 AND SCHEME DATED 20TH APRIL 1998.AS AMENDED ON 09 MAR 2016 as amended on 06 Jun 2019
Contact on the register
02073008017 · press.office@royalacademy.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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