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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

12 trustees
Income £195m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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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Public contracts won

1 contract

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Offsite biodiversity gains and climate contributions Buyer: NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED Value not published Date not published Source: Find a Tender

About

What it does: Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Argentina and more
Website: www.rspb.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Registered: 1962

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£195m£177m
2024£170m£168m
2023£165m£165m

Earlier years

2022£158m£143m
2021£142m£122m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 1% · Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A. CONSERVING WILD BIRDS AND OTHER WILDLIFE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ON WHICH THEY DEPEND; B. PROTECTING, RESTORING AND RE-CREATING HABITATS. AND, IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT PRIMARY OBJECTIVE, TO RAISE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND PROVIDE INFORMATION ON SUCH MATTERS. 2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN CONSERVATION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT."

Grants received

375 grants · £81,677,045 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 · £62,008,668 (226 grants)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £8,830,195 (75 grants)
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £3,623,052 (10 grants)
Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £1,984,527 (8 grants)
Department for Transport · £1,776,845 (4 grants)

Most recent

John Ellerman Foundation £150,0002026-06-04
John Ellerman Foundation £147,0002026-06-04
The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002026-03-17
SHAREGIFT £7,5002026-03-10
SHAREGIFT £2,5002026-02-12

Contracts awarded

5 contracts · £447,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.

Top suppliers

Unknown supplier · £447,000 (5 contracts)

Most recent

Downs to the Sea - Ferry Fields Predator Exclusion Fence Supplier: Unknown£50,0002026-08-01
Downs to the Sea and Improving Pulborough and Amberley Projects at RSPB Pulborough Brooks Supplier: Unknown£80,0002026-07-01
Downs to the Sea and Improving Pulborough and Amberley Projects at RSPB Amberley Wildbrooks Supplier: Unknown£300,0002026-07-01
Downs to the Sea - Potential to Reality Project Work - Track Upgrade Supplier: Unknown£17,0002025-10-04
RSPB Waste Management Request for Information Supplier: UnknownValue not publishedDate not published

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.

12 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

10.3y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

Dr Grace Deepa Senapathi since 2025
William James Sutherland since 2023

company-linked trustees

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

Animals 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Other services 5Professional services 3Agriculture 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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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£195.0m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 7.6 in 2021

2486 from 2101 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.

12%

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: 207076
Status: Registered
Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 03/11/1904AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 24/04/1996AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 16/07/2014AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 13 FEB 2019
Companies House: Company number RC000521 · Active
Contact on the register: 01767 680551 · membership@rspb.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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