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Registered charity · London

The Royal Economic Society

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.res.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.4m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.5m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE GENERAL ADVANCEMENT OF ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE, THE PUBLICATION OF ECONOMIC WRITINGS, AND THE ORGANISATION OF DISCUSSIONS RELATING TO QUESTIONS OF ECONOMIC INTEREST.

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.

1.6y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.2y
average years in governance
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 12

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 4Education 1Mining 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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£1.5m 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.

49.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 62.3 in 2020

14 from 8 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
231508
Status
Registered
Governing document
CHARTER OF INCORPORATION DATED 2 DECEMBER 1902 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 26 JANUARY 1968 AND BYE-LAWS AMENDED 20 DECEMBER 2011 AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 19 JUL 2022
Contact on the register
02031376301 · resoffice@res.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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