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Registered charity · London

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland
Website
www.rcvsknowledge.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Trust
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.3m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.6m£2.0m
  • 2022£1.6m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£1.8m
  • 2020£974k£1.4m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND ADVANCE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF VETERINARY SURGERY AND MEDICINE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE SAID ART AND SCIENCE IN ANY MANNER THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE AWARD OF FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS AND MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES TO ENABLE VETERINARY GRADUATES FROM ANY VETERINARY SCHOOL IN GREAT BRITAIN TO PURSUE THEIR EDUCATION EITHER IN GREAT BRITAIN OR BY TRAVELLING ABROAD.3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE SAID ART AND SCIENCE BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A LIBRARY OR LIBRARIES.4) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO ANY FIELD OF VETERINARY SURGERY AND MEDICINE AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF ('THE OBJECT

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.

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (7)

10
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 10Animals 8General Charitable Purposes 2Accommodation/housing 1Disability 1Economic/community Development/employment 1Other 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.

Professional services 14Retail and trade 3Health and social care 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.3m 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.

12.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 14.2 in 2020

22 from 15 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
230886
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/02/1958AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/02/1998AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 31/03/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/06/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/03/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/09/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 NOV 2017 as amended on 28 Sep 2018
Companies House
Company number 00598443 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7202 0721 · info@rcvsknowledge.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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