The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Royal Institution of Great Britain

Registered charity 227938 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

3y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

3
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 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Education 2Business services 1Health and social care 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£9.8m 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.

42.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 67.5 in 2021

70 from 48 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.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.rigb.org
Emailgovernance@ri.ac.uk
Phone02074092992
Address21 ALBEMARLE STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON, W1S 4BS

Finances

£9,823,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£3,199,838£3,974,893
2022£4,601,713£5,438,731
2023£5,954,000£6,740,000
2024£7,855,000£6,600,000
2025£9,823,000£6,945,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

(1) TO DIFFUSE THE KNOWLEDGE AND FACILITATE THE GENERAL INTRODUCTION OF USEFUL MECHANICAL INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS;(2) TO TEACH BY COURSES OF PHILOSOPHICAL LECTURES AND EXPERIMENTS THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE TO THE COMMON PURPOSES OF LIFE;(3) TO PROMOTE CHEMICAL SCIENCE BY EXPERIMENTS AND LECTURES FOR IMPROVING ARTS AND MANUFACTURES;(4) TO DISCOVER THE USES OF THE MINERAL AND OTHER NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF THIS COUNTRY; AND (5) TO DIFFUSE AND EXTEND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL.

Governing document: GRANTED 13/01/1800AS AMENDED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT DATED 18/04/1810AS AMENDED BY THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN CHARITY SCHEME CONFIRMATION ACT DATED 14/05/1958SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER GRANTED 14/11/1958AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 17/04/1959AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 26/05/1959AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 30/03/1965AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 26/01/1967AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 22/02/1967AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 26/04/1971AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 10/04/1984AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 11/04/1984AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 30/03/2011AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 07/04/2011

Trustees (12)

12trustees
62median age
1aged 70+

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