The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Royal Philharmonic Society

Registered charity 213693 Registered since 1964

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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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.

7 trustees on the board

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.4y
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.

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.

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Also active in the same field

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Contact

Websitewww.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk
Emailadmin@philharmonicsociety.uk
Phone02072870019
AddressROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, 48 Great Marlborough Street, LONDON, W1F 7BB

Finances

£539,418 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£775,256£614,666
2022£391,766£537,281
2023£840,690£524,607
2024£293,583£458,624
2025£539,418£514,045

What it does

What

Arts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To OrganisationsOther Charitable Activities

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

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

Trustees (7)

7trustees
51median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Royal Philharmonic Society(the) · 00186522 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 19/12/1922

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (5)

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