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Registered charity · Riba

Royal Institute of British Architects

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £31m (2024)
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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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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and more
Website
www.riba.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Institute of British Architects
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£31m£33m
  • 2023£27m£28m
  • 2022£23m£31m
Earlier years
  • 2021£21m£29m
  • 2020£21m£29m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE PROMOTION OF THE ACQUIREMENT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES CONNECTED THEREWITH.

Grants received

6 grants · £3,761,100 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 · £3,761,100 (6 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £67,0002013-10-31
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £40,0002010-02-17
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £3,350,0002002-07-30
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £18,7002001-07-03
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £242,8001998-07-03
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.

1.5y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
12.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (4)

5
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 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.

Professional services 3Arts and leisure 2Business services 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£30.7m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.3 in 2020

256 from 318 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
210566
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER 1837 AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER 1971 AS AMENDED BY ORDER OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL DATED 26 NOVEMBER 2009 AS AMENDED BY PRIVY COUNCIL ORDER DATED 25 JUL 2016 AS AMENDED BY PRIVY COUNCIL ORDER DATED 11 MARCH 2020
Companies House
Company number RC000484 · Active
Contact on the register
02073073750 · info@riba.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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