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Registered charity · London

RSA (the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)

RSA (the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) is a registered charity (number 212424) based in London, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £13m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as R S A, Royal Society of Arts (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Thomas Russell.

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

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Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.

About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and more
Website
www.thersa.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Society of Arts
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£14m
  • 2024£13m£13m
  • 2023£13m£13m
Earlier years
  • 2022£10m£11m
  • 2021£8.4m£10m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE (FOR FULL DETAILS SEE PARAGRAPH 4 OF ROYAL CHARTER)

Grants received

28 grants · £81,672,027 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 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £79,069,000
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £656,700
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £500,000
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £471,905 (6 grants)
  • Friends Provident Foundation · £225,000 (2 grants)

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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.

8 trustees on the board

2.8y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (4)

3
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 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Environment/conservation/heritage 4Economic/community Development/employment 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Disability 1Other Charitable Purposes 1

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 14Business services 8Health and social care 3

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£12.6m 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.

7.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 38.0 in 2021

101 from 110 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.
1%
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
212424
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 10/06/1847AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 10/02/1981AS AMENDED ON 30/09/1987AS AMENDED ON 28/09/1988AS AMENDED ON 13/01/1992AS AMENDED ON 07/10/1998 15/01/2003AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 19/07/2006 05/10/2011AS AMENDED ON 11/11/2015
Companies House
Company number RC000523 · Active
Contact on the register
02079305115 · general@rsa.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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