THE ROYAL DRAWING SCHOOL

Registered charity 1101538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PRINCE'S DRAWING SCHOOL

To facilitate and promote the practice of drawing from observation; we believe that this is crucial for all aspects of visual learning, thinking and practice. We aim to fill a gap left by the steady erosion of observational drawing from the study of art in higher education and in schools by offering tuition and resources to art students, artists, children and the public.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets stood at £19,516,975, comprising a £15.3 million endowment fund and £1.3 million in unrestricted general funds. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, noting that the additional spending was due to its 25th anniversary, re-branding, and digital investments. 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 audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Drawing School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Catherine Goodman CBE LVO — Founding Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (55% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Mary Wellesley
• Elizabeth Sorensen
• Fope Adelowo
• Glenda Adrianne Bailey OBE DBE
• John Booth · trustee of 4 other charities
• Mariam Fazal Faruqi
• Matthew Rice
• NICHOLAS JOHN VETCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Eileen Hogan
• Tania Liliana Slowe
• Timothy Aidan John Knox · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON ART SCHOOL LIMITED.

• CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON ART SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.1m
• ROYAL FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART FOUNDATION income £215k
• THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC income £1.6m
• BANKSIDE GALLERY LIMITED income £448k
• THE ALBERT DAWSON EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £119k
• THE CHILDRENS ART SCHOOL income £185k

Side by side with its peers

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