Property Research Trust Limited

Registered charity 1085587 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RICS FOUNDATION, RICS RESEARCH TRUST

Undertake such exclusively charitable objects or purposes in the United Kingdom or any other part of the world as Trustees in their absolute discretion think fit including but not limited to the advancement of education in any subjects which concern the built and natural environments or the theory of and practice of surveying in any of its aspects, in such ways as the Trustees think fit.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO UNDERTAKE SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN ANY SUBJECTS WHICH CONCERN THE BUILT AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS OR THE THEORY OF AND PRACTICE OF SURVEYING IN ANY OF ITS ASPECTS, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT INCLUDING BY:1. PROVIDING GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, PRIZES OR OTHERWISE TO THOSE UNDERTAKING STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO MATTERS RELATING TO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SURVEYING AND THE BUILT AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; AND2. RAISING AWARENESS, PROMOTING RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATING RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH, WITH A VIEW TO PRESERVING, CONSERVING AND IMPROVING THE BUILT AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £42,172 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, total reserves stood at £87,603, comprising £61,683 in restricted funds and £25,920 in unrestricted funds, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining three to six months' expenditure in unrestricted funds. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Conflicting interests

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 09/03/2024, 130 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Aubrey Barker Fund — “The Sarah Sayce Award for Sustainability Research has been established by the Property Research Trust, the Aubrey Barker Fund and the Royal …” (source page)
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors — “The Sarah Sayce Award for Sustainability Research has been established by the Property Research Trust, the Aubrey Barker Fund and the Royal …” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Robert Louis Harrischair
• Alan McNeil Dalgleish
• Dr Gregory Norman Watts
• Dr Oluwaseun Damilola Ajayi
• Edward Keith Sayce
• James Dennis Child
• Neil Blake
• Peter Papadakos
• Piyush Kumar Tiwari
• Timothy Edward Bellman
• Whitney Bevan

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Germany · India · New Zealand · Nigeria · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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