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Registered charity · Oxfordshire

The Royal Forestry Society

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website
www.rfs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Forestry Society
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£967k
  • 2024£917k£967k
  • 2023£905k£841k
Earlier years
  • 2022£783k£772k
  • 2021£589k£594k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF FORESTRY, ARBORICULTURE AND ALLIED SCIENCES; 3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN FORESTRY, ARBORICULTURE AND ALLIED SCIENCES; AND 3.3 THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN FORESTRY, ARBORICULTURE AND ALLIED SCIENCES AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS THEREOF.

Grants received

4 grants · £11,405 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Agriculture 12Property 6Construction 4

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£917k 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.

19.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 39.0 in 2020

9 from 6 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
306093
Status
Registered
Governing document
RULES REVISED 1960, 16 MARCH 1982, 14 MAY 1984 AND 16 MARCH 2004. MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 DECEMBER 2004
Companies House
Company number 05306975 · Active
Contact on the register
01295678588 · rfshq@rfs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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