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Registered charity · London

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £20m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria and more
Website
www.rcog.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£20m£21m
  • 2023£27m£28m
  • 2022£24m£22m
Earlier years
  • 2021£21m£17m
  • 2020£19m£19m
Charitable objects

THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE STUDY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY.

Board analysis for researchers

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

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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 2Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across 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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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£20.5m 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.

29.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.9 in 2020

183 from 208 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.
8%
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
213280
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 21/03/1947AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 15/11/1948AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 03/09/1979AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 14/12/1999AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 10/12/2003AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 22/05/2010AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 07/12/2012
Contact on the register
0207 772 6200 · ceo@rcog.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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