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Registered charity · London

The Royal Society of Biology

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £3.2m (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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.rsb.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.2m£3.5m
  • 2024£3.4m£3.3m
  • 2023£2.8m£3.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.8m£2.7m
  • 2021£2.8m£2.5m
Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF BIOLOGY, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THEREIN AND TO CO-ORDINATE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION.

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.

14 trustees on the board

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Education/training 14Environment/conservation/heritage 14

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 2Health 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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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£3.2m latest income
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.

5.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.6 in 2021

40 from 30 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
277981
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER 14TH MARCH 1979 AS AMENDED BY ORDER OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL DATED 8TH JUNE 2004 AND 8 JULY 2009.AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 14 JUN 2017
Contact on the register
020 3925 3440 · info@rsb.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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