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Registered charity · London

The Royal Society of Chemistry

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £73m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Brazil, China, Germany and more
Website
www.rsc.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Society of Chemistry
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£73m£88m
  • 2023£71m£85m
  • 2022£66m£72m
Earlier years
  • 2021£64m£64m
  • 2020£65m£64m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

GENERAL ADVANCEMENT OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE.

Grants received

1 grant · £115,736 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

  • Department for Education · £115,736

Most recent

  • Department for Education £115,7362020-04-01
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.

3y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
3.1y
average years in governance
0
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 15General Charitable Purposes 15

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£73.4m 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.

9.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 12.1 in 2020

752 from 627 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
207890
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER OF 15 MAY 1980.
Companies House
Company number RC000524 · Active
Contact on the register
01223420066
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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