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Registered charity · London

Royal Institute of Navigation

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £705k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Also 5 organisations acting as trustee: Andy Proctor, John Owen, Marek Ziebart, Peter Douglas, Tristan Gooley.

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Croatia, Ireland, Scotland and more
Website
www.rin.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£705k£596k
  • 2023£473k£486k
  • 2022£444k£448k
Earlier years
  • 2021£432k£425k
  • 2020£391k£377k
Charitable objects

TO UNITE IN ONE BODY THOSE INTERESTED IN NAVIGATION, AND TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF NAVIGATION AND TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE IN NAVIGATION AND ITS ASSOCIATED SCIENCES, INCLUDING POSITIONING, TIMING, TRACKING AND CONDUCT OF A JOURNEY, WHETHER ON, IN, OVER OR UNDER LAND, SEA, AIR OR SPACE.

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.

10 trustees on the board

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

0
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 10Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 10

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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£705k 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.

11.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

5
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
1117254
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION DATED 14 NOVEMBER 2006
Contact on the register
02031542122 · admin@rin.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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