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The Royal Academy of Arts

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £37m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.royalacademy.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Academy of Arts
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£37m£41m
  • 2024£38m£47m
  • 2023£44m£37m
Earlier years
  • 2022£43m£33m
  • 2021£37m£31m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS OF DESIGN.2. THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CREATION, ENJOYMENT, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS, THROUGH EXHIBITIONS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND DEBATE BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL MAY THINK FIT.

Grants received

10 grants · £18,912,220 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

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.

15 trustees on the board

2.1y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (6)

8
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 15Education/training 15The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 14Environment/conservation/heritage 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 9Education 7Health and social care 4

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£37.1m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

334 from 312 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
1125383
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/07/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/06/2010AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16/02/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 MAR 2022
Companies House
Company number 06298947 · Active
Contact on the register
02073008017 · press.office@royalacademy.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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