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Royal Television Society

Royal Television Society is a registered charity (number 313728) based in London, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Jane Turton since 2015. Latest income £5.1m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £5.1m (2024)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and more
Website
www.rts.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Television Society
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£5.1m£5.0m
  • 2023£5.1m£4.6m
  • 2022£4.2m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.3m£2.8m
  • 2020£1.6m£2.5m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE PRACTICE, TECHNOLOGY, ART AND SCIENCE OF TELEVISION AND ALLIED FIELDS (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE, IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGH STANDARDS OF CREATIVITY IN TELEVISION AND ALLIED FIELDS

Grants received

1 grant · £9,300 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.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,300

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,3002008-11-13
Board analysis

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.

12 trustees on the board

5.2y median 3y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 12Education/training 12

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 129Other services 22Professional services 19

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£5.1m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

20.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 36.4 in 2020

22 from 16 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
313728
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 12 JULY 1930 AS ALTERED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 24 APRIL 1964, 9 DECEMBER 1966, 18 JANUARY 1968 , 12 FEBRUARY 1981,19 OCTOBER 1994, 4TH APRIL 1995, 23 MAY 2007 AND 27 MAY 2009.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 MAY 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 MAY 2016 as amended on 30 Jun 2020
Companies House
Company number 00249462 · Active
Contact on the register
02078222810 · info@rts.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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