The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 12th July 2026

Royal Statistical Society

Registered charity 306096 Registered since 1964

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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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.

1.7y median 1y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.3y
average years in governance
2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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 1Business services 1Property 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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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£2.3m 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.

10.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.7 in 2020

29 from 25 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

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Contact

Websitewww.rss.org.uk
Emailinfo@rss.org.uk
Phone02076388998
Address56-64 Leonard Street, LONDON, EC2A 4LT

Finances

£2,335,769 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£2,005,065£2,124,746
2021£2,235,822£2,156,230
2022£3,108,039£2,409,739
2023£2,174,997£2,762,038
2024£2,335,769£2,979,187

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/training

Who

Other Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

TO COLLECT, ARRANGE, DIGEST AND PUBLISH FACTS ILLUSTRATING THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY IN ITS MATERIAL, SOCIAL AND MORAL RELATIONS; THESE FACTS BEING FOR THE MOST PART ARRANGED IN TABULAR FORMS AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE NUMERICAL METHOD.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER DATED 31ST JANUARY 1887

Trustees (35)

35trustees
72median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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