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Registered charity · London

The Royal Parks [Limited]

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £110m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Camden, City Of Westminster, Greenwich, Hillingdon and more
Website
www.royalparks.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Parks Limited
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£110m£113m
  • 2024£123m£113m
  • 2023£105m£96m
Earlier years
  • 2022£88m£77m
  • 2021£48m£52m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 45% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROTECT, CONSERVE, MAINTAIN AND CARE FOR THE ROYAL PARKS, INCLUDING THEIR NATURAL AND DESIGNED LANDSCAPES AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT, TO A HIGH STANDARD CONSISTENT WITH THEIR HISTORIC, HORTICULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE;2. TO PROMOTE THE USE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE ROYAL PARKS FOR PUBLIC RECREATION, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SPORTING AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS WHICH EFFECTIVELY ADVANCE THE OBJECTS;3. TO MAINTAIN AND DEVELOP THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE ROYAL PARKS, INCLUDING THE PROTECTION OF THEIR WILDLIFE AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, TOGETHER WITH PROMOTING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE ROYAL PARKS;4. TO SUPPORT THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE ROYAL PARKS AND (BY WAY OF COMPARISON) ELSEWHERE;5. TO PROMOTE THE NATIONAL HERITAGE INCLUDING BY HOSTING AND FACILITATING CEREMONIES OF STATE OR OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE WITHIN AND IN THE VICINITY OF THE ROYAL PARKS.

Grants received

25 grants · £22,108,116 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 · £12,975,582 (8 grants)
  • Postcode Green Trust · £3,700,000 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £3,230,000 (2 grants)
  • London Marathon Foundation · £1,251,500 (7 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £950,000 (2 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

2.1y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11Recreation 11

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

Property 10Education 3Arts and leisure 2

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£109.9m 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.0 in 2021

389 from 163 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.
45%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1172042
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19 FEB 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 MAR 2017AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 10016100 · Active
Contact on the register
03000612000 · HQ@royalparks.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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