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Registered charity · London

Royal Historical Society

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £684k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
royalhistsoc.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£684k£790k
  • 2024£610k£669k
  • 2023£580k£575k
Earlier years
  • 2022£563k£482k
  • 2021£506k£427k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER THE STUDY OF HISTORY BY ASSISTING IN THE PUBLICATION OF RARE AND VALUABLE DOCUMENTS, AND BY THE PUBLICATION FROM TIME TO TIME OF VOLUMES OF TRANSACTIONS, AND OF SCHOLARLY HANDBOOKS.

Grants received

3 grants · £15,000 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

  • LUND TRUST · £15,000 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • LUND TRUST £5,0002023-12-25
  • LUND TRUST £5,0002022-12-01
  • LUND TRUST £5,0002021-12-15
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.

2.9y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.6y
average years in governance
1
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 17Education/training 17

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 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£684k 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.

66.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 120.0 in 2021

5 from 4 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
206888
Status
Registered
Governing document
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1889
Contact on the register
020 3821 5311 · administration@royalhistsoc.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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