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Registered charity · London

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £13m (2024)
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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, India, Ireland, Scotland and more
Website
www.rcem.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£13m£13m
  • 2023£11m£11m
  • 2022£9.6m£9.8m
Earlier years
  • 2021£8.8m£8.1m
  • 2020£6.9m£6.2m
Charitable objects

A) ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND2) PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE SICKNESS BY IMPROVING STANDARDS AND PROVIDING EXPERT GUIDANCE AND ADVICE ON POLICY0 TO APPROPRIATE BODIES ON MATTERS RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICINEB0 PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE SICKNESS BY IMPROVING STANDARDS OF HEALTH CARE AND PROVIDING EXPERT GUIDANCE AND ADVICE ON POLICY TO APPROPRIATE BODIES ON MATTERS RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICINE

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.

12 trustees on the board

3.3y median 2.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12Other Charitable Purposes 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12

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

Health and social care 2Other 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£13.0m 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.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.9 in 2020

75 from 53 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
1122689
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER (DATED) 12TH DECEMBER 2007ROYAL CHARTER AS AMENDED ON 04/01/2015
Contact on the register
02074041999 · rcem@rcem.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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