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Registered charity · London

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Limited

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Germany, Romania, United States, Throughout England and more
Website
www.rpo.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Limited
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£11m
  • 2024£12m£12m
  • 2023£11m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.6m£8.3m
  • 2021£3.2m£3.6m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULAR MUSICAL EDUCATION AND TO ENCOURAGE THE ARTS OF MUSIC, DRAMA, MIME, DANCING AND SINGING.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

13 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (4)

13
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 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 12General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 20Finance 14Professional services 11

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£11.8m 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.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.5 in 2021

37 from 29 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
244533
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11 JUN 1963AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 DEC 1966AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 OCT 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 OCT 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 OCT 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 OCT 2018 as amended on 07 Jan 2020
Companies House
Company number 00763836 · Active
Contact on the register
02076088800 · info@rpo.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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