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Royal Astronomical Society

Royal Astronomical Society is a registered charity (number 226545) based in London, governed by 21 trustees. Latest income £7.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 21 trustees
  • Income £7.1m (2025)
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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, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.ras.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.1m£5.6m
  • 2024£5.2m£4.7m
  • 2023£7.1m£5.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.3m£4.7m
  • 2021£5.2m£4.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS.

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.

2y median 1y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (21)

2
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 21Other Charitable Purposes 21

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 1Other services 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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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£7.1m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

22.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 20.0 in 2021

31 from 24 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
226545
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER 1831, SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER 1915 AND BYE LAWS AS AMENDED 14TH MAY 2004AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 12 NOV 2025
Contact on the register
02077344582 · accountant@ras.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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