The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Royal College of Music

Registered charity 309268 Registered since 1964

Operates: Kensington And Chelsea

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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.

21 trustees on the board

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (17)

Portfolio (4)

2
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 21Arts/culture/heritage/science 3Environment/conservation/heritage 3The 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 3Education 1Professional services 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£41.1m 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.

19.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 27.3 in 2021

279 from 263 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.

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

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.rcm.ac.uk
Emailinfo@rcm.ac.uk
Phone02075914363
AddressROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, LONDON, SW7 2BS

Finances

£41,057,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£28,589,582£26,704,954
2022£32,481,032£32,953,494
2023£33,258,110£32,414,334
2024£37,066,583£31,165,478
2025£41,057,000£37,845,000

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young People

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ART OF MUSIC BE MEANS OF A CENTRAL TEACHING AND EXAMINING BODY, THE PROMOTION AND SUPERVISION OF MUSICAL INSTRUCTION CONDUCIVE TO THE CULTIVATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE ART OF MUSIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE GENERAL ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE CULTIVATION OF MUSIC AS AN ART THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH DOMINIONS.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 23 MAY 1883AS AMENDED ON 25 JUN 1992

Trustees (21)

21trustees
55median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (5)

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