The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

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

Registered charity 212424 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States, Scotland

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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.

10 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (5)

4
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 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Environment/conservation/heritage 5Economic/community Development/employment 3The 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 15Business services 10Education 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Related organisations

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.thersa.org
Emailgeneral@rsa.org.uk
Phone02079305115
AddressROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT, OF ARTS, MANUFACTURERS & COMMERCE, 8 JOHN ADAM STREET, LONDON, WC2N 6EZ

Finances

£12,634,698 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£8,400,396£10,037,645
2022£10,378,027£11,254,567
2023£12,879,950£12,762,322
2024£12,519,199£13,245,424
2025£12,634,698£13,649,990

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritageEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

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

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

Trustees (11)

10trustees
60median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Royal Society of Arts · RC000523 · Active

Royal Charter Company · incorporated 01/01/1981

Connected charities (7)

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