The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Royal Academy of Dramatic ART

Registered charity 312819 Registered since 1962

Operates: Camden

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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.

18 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (4)

5
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 18Education/training 18Economic/community Development/employment 15General Charitable Purposes 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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.

Education 5Arts and leisure 4Other services 2

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£16.7m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.1 in 2021

139 from 176 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

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.rada.ac.uk
Emailenquiries@rada.ac.uk
Phone02079084893
AddressROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART, 62-64 GOWER STREET, LONDON, WC1E 6ED

Finances

£16,724,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£8,962,000£13,029,000
2022£13,676,000£14,727,000
2023£15,306,000£16,119,000
2024£15,763,000£16,796,000
2025£16,724,000£17,012,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND CARRY ON A SCHOOL OR ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART. TO ADVANCE THE ART OF THE DRAMA BY MEANS OF GIVING INSTRUCTION IN AND PROMOTING THE STUDY, PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE AND ACTING IN ALL OR ANY OF ITS BRANCHES EXCLUSIVELY. TO PROMOTE AND SUPERVISE SUCH INSTRUCTION AS MAY BE THOUGHT MOST CONDUCIVE TO THE CULTIVATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE ART OF THE DRAMA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE BRITISH DOMINIONS.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER DATED 16 JULY 1920 AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 22 DECEMBER 1971 as amended by an Order in Council on 21 Jul 2020

Trustees (18)

18trustees
59median age
0aged 70+

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