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Registered charity · East Molesey

Historic Royal Palaces

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £139m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
City Of London, City Of Westminster, Kensington And Chelsea, Kingston Upon Thames and more
Website
www.hrp.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£139m£108m
  • 2024£134m£91m
  • 2023£102m£82m
Earlier years
  • 2022£54m£61m
  • 2021£33m£54m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION: (A) TO MANAGE, CONSERVE, RENOVATE, REPAIR, MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE PALACES ("THE PALACES" BEING THE TOWER OF LONDON; HAMPTON COURT PALACE; THE STATE APARTMENTS AND ORANGERY AT KENSINGTON PALACE; THE BANQUETING HOUSE, WHITEHALL; KEW PALACE WITH QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S COTTAGE; AND OTHER PALACE OR PROPERTY CONSIDERED BY THE TRUSTEES TO BE OF ROYAL ASSOCIATION AND HISTORIC AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE AND AGREED BY US AND OUR SECRETARY OF STATE; TOGETHER WITH ANY ASSOCIATED GARDENS, LANDS, BUILDINGS AND CONTENTS OTHER THAN THE COLLECTION OF THE ROYAL ARMOURIES) TO A HIGH STANDARD CONSISTENT WITH THEIR STATUS AS BUILDINGS OF ROYAL ASSOCIATION AND HISTORIC AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE; AND (B) TO HELP EVERYONE TO LEARN ABOUT THE PALACES, THE SKILLS REQUIRED FOR THEIR CONSERVATION AND THE WIDER STORY OF HOW MONARCHS AND PEOPLE TOGETHER HAVE SHAPED SOCIETY BY PROVIDING PUBLIC ACCESS, BY EXHIBITION, BY EVENTS AND EDUCATION PROGRAMMES, BY THE PREPARATION OF RECORDS, BY RESEARCH AND BY PUBLICATION AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS ARE APPROPRIATE.

Grants received

29 grants · £35,030,020 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £19,025,600 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £9,190,094 (12 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £5,490,000 (3 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £672,941 (3 grants)
  • John Lyon's Charity · £250,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £5,000,0002025-10-06
  • John Lyon's Charity £250,0002025-03-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £5,000,0002024-12-03
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £133,8932024-05-23
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £201,4002023-03-31

Contracts awarded

5 contracts · £9,775,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.

Top suppliers

  • Unknown supplier · £9,500,000 (4 contracts)
  • Meyvaert NV · £275,000

Most recent

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.

12 trustees on the board

2.6y median 1.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

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 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 11General Charitable Purposes 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 14Education 3Tech and media 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£138.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.1 in 2021

910 from 839 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
1068852
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER SEALED ON 6/3/98, AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 10/10/06, 13/10/10 AND 11/2/14 as amended by an Order in Council on 10 Jun 2015
Contact on the register
0333 320 6000 · info@hrp.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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