The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 12th July 2026

Royal Academy of Dance

Registered charity 312826 Registered since 1963

Operates: Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark

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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

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (4)

4
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 4Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Disability 2Environment/conservation/heritage 2Religious Activities 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Accommodation/housing 1Amateur Sport 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 2Arts and leisure 1Finance 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£22.4m 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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 15.5 in 2021

248 from 236 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.royalacademyofdance.org
Emailinfo@rad.org.uk
Phone02073268000
AddressRoyal Academy Of Dance, 188 York Road, LONDON, SW11 3JZ

Finances

£22,397,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£18,695,000£16,858,000
2022£20,626,000£20,278,000
2023£22,004,000£22,113,000
2024£21,726,000£22,971,000
2025£22,397,000£24,155,000

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

(1)TO ELEVATE AND ADVANCE THE ART OF THE DANCE BY PROMOTING THE CORRECT TUITION OF DANCE IN ITS HIGHEST FORMS;(2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ART OF DANCE, IN PARTICULAR:(A) BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR DANCE, DANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING;(B) BY SETTING UP AND MAINTAINING PROGRAMMES OF STUDY FOR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF DANCERS, TEACHERS AND NOTATORS OF DANCE (SUCH PROGRAMMES TO INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE STUDY OF BENESH MOVEMENT NOTATION, WHENEVER APPROPRIATE);(C) BY SETTING AND CONDUCTING EXAMINATIONS IN DANCE AND THE TEACHING OF DANCE;(D) BY EDUCATING, TRAINING, ASSESSING, REGISTERING, LICENSING AND CHARTERING TEACHERS OF DANCE WHO MEET STANDARDS DETERMINED BY THE BOARD FROM TIME TO TIME; AND(E) BY PROMOTING TEACHING OF DANCE.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION DATED 17 JANUARY 1936 AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER GRANTED 9 DECEMBER 1977. AS AMENDED ON 19 NOVEMBER 1996, 13 DECEMBER 2000. 9 MAY 2005 AND 10 DECEMBER 2008.

Trustees (18)

18trustees
62median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Royal Academy of Dance · RC000436 · Active

Royal Charter Company · incorporated 01/01/1981

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