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Registered charity · London

The Royal Town Planning Institute

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £8.4m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.rtpi.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1971

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£8.4m£8.9m
  • 2023£8.4m£8.8m
  • 2022£7.8m£7.4m
Earlier years
  • 2021£6.8m£6.6m
  • 2020£6.6m£6.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

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

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE AND ART OF TOWN PLANNING IN ALL ITS ASPECTS (INCLUDING LOCAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL PLANNING) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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.

13 trustees on the board

1.5y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

1
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 13Environment/conservation/heritage 13General Charitable Purposes 13

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 1

Gaps to watch

  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£8.4m 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 14.5 in 2020

90 from 84 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.
0%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
262865
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 14/09/1959AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 09/07/1971AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 30/07/1982AS AMENDED ON 27/07/1983AS AMENDED ON 21/07/1987AS AMENDED ON 30/11/1990AS AMENDED ON 04/06/1992AS AMENDED ON 09/11/1993AS AMENDED ON 17/05/1995AS AMENDED ON 24/06/1998AS AMENDED ON 19/04/2000AS AMENDED ON 18/07/2001AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 17/07/2003AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 17/10/2012
Contact on the register
02079299494 · governance@rtpi.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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