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Royal Philharmonic Society

Royal Philharmonic Society is a registered charity (number 213693) based in London, governed by 7 trustees. Latest income £539k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £539k (2025)
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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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Philharmonic Society
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£539k£514k
  • 2024£294k£459k
  • 2023£841k£525k
Earlier years
  • 2022£392k£537k
  • 2021£775k£615k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ENCOURAGE AN APPRECIATION BY THE PUBLIC OF THE ART OF MUSIC, IN PARTICULAR TO DO SO THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN SOCIETY AND THROUGH ACTIVITIES WHICH FALL WITHIN THE CONCEPTS OF PROMOTING AN UNDERSTANDING OF MUSIC, ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY IN MUSIC AND GIVING RECOGNITION TO EXCELLENCE IN MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

Grants received

3 grants · £54,701 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.

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Most recent

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.

7 trustees on the board

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

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 7Education/training 3General 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.

Arts and leisure 13Education 6Business services 1

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£539k latest income
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.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 9.7 in 2021

4 from 3 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
213693
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/12/1922AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/11/1932AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/05/1933AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/05/1939AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/06/1955AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/1963AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/07/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/01/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/01/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/01/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/01/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 APR 2019 as amended on 10 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 00186522 · Active
Contact on the register
02072870019 · admin@philharmonicsociety.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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