Registered charity · Bristol
Royal West of England Academy
- 11 trustees
- Income £2.2m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Abbi BaylissTrustee · since 2026
- Charlotte Price RWATrustee · since 2024
- George Robin Paget Ferguson CBETrustee · since 2024
- Hamish Richard Stuart YoungTrustee · since 2023
- Ilayda AkarcaTrustee · since 2026
- James Douglas RussellTrustee · since 2020
- Michael PerryTrustee · since 2022
- Miranda Louise HarrisTrustee · since 2024
- Mohamed Osman Mohammed TahaTrustee · since 2024
- Raymond John BrownTrustee · since 2024
- Sarah PrichardTrustee · since 2026
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
- Bristol City
- Website
- www.rwa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Royal West of England Academy
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.2m£1.2m
- 2024£1.1m£1.1m
- 2023£1.7m£1.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.1m£553k
- 2021£1.6m£744k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FINE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE THE APPRECIATION AND PRACTICE OF THE FINE ARTS AND TO ENCOURAGE AND DEVELOP TALENT IN FINE ART.
Grants received
44 grants · £2,760,913 total360Giving 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 · £2,276,823 (7 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £240,000 (3 grants)
- Quartet Community Foundation · £117,712 (29 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £103,900
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £11,978 (3 grants)
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Abbi Bayliss since 2026
- Charlotte Price RWA since 2024
- George Robin Paget Ferguson CBE since 2024
- Hamish Richard Stuart Young since 2023
- Ilayda Akarca since 2026
- James Douglas Russell since 2020
- Michael Perry since 2022
- Miranda Louise Harris since 2024
- Mohamed Osman Mohammed Taha since 2024
- Raymond John Brown since 2024
- Sarah Prichard since 2026
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Abbi Bayliss since 2026
- Charlotte Price RWA since 2024
- Hamish Richard Stuart Young since 2023
- Ilayda Akarca since 2026
- Michael Perry since 2022
- Miranda Louise Harris since 2024
- Mohamed Osman Mohammed Taha since 2024
- Raymond John Brown since 2024
- Sarah Prichard since 2026
Portfolio (2)
- George Robin Paget Ferguson CBE since 2024
- James Douglas Russell since 2020
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.8 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1070163
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 14 MAY 1998 AS AMENDED 25 MARCH 2000 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 29 MARCH 2008 & 28 MARCH 2009
- Companies House
- Company number 03567088 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01179735129 · info@rwa.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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