THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

Registered charity 1125383 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q270920 · Wikipedia

On 1 September 2009, all the assets, net liabilities and undertakings of the Royal Academy of Arts, charity number 212798, were transfered to The Royal Academy of Arts, charity number 1125383, company number 6298947.From 1 September 2009 therefore, the activities of The Royal Academy of Arts, charity number 1125383, are the promotion of Arts of Design through exhibitions and education.

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS OF DESIGN.2. THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CREATION, ENJOYMENT, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS, THROUGH EXHIBITIONS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND DEBATE BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL MAY THINK FIT.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · 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 expenditure of £4.1m for core activities, an improvement from the prior year's £10.9m, driven by cost savings and a restructure. However, the trustees report that free reserves are in a deficit of £5.3m, which is below the stated policy target of £4.5m. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm sufficient funding and liquidity for the foreseeable future, noting that committed credit facilities were not utilised.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Peggy Guggenheim exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London arts-in-the-city.com · 11/10/2026
• A Soft, Bright Moment: Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy of Arts fadmagazine.com · 03/10/2026
• Princess Margaret’s Grandson Makes a Rare Solo Appearance at the Royal Academy of Arts townandcountrymag.com · 30/09/2026
• Princess Margaret’s Grandson Makes a Rare Solo Appearance at the Royal Academy of Arts aol.co.uk · 30/09/2026
• 2 for 1 tickets to Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy of Arts observer.co.uk · 24/09/2026
• NEWS: Royal Academy of Arts Announces 2027 Exhibition Programme lovelondonloveculture.com · 17/09/2026
• NEWS: Royal Academy of Arts Announces 2027 Exhibition Programme lovelondonloveculture.com · 17/09/2026
• Cristina Iglesias Creates a Site-Specific Work for the Royal Academy of Arts alejandradeargos.com · 25/08/2026

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Royal Academy of Arts scores 2.1/5 from 11 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (48% 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: 29.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Black
• Alistair Summers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Engi Meacock
• Anthony Lewis Cohen
• Eileen Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elsie Owusu
• Fiona Banner RA
• Hew Donald Joseph Locke OBE
• Hurvin Linton Anderson
• Katherine Fiona Jones RA
• Michael Landy
• Professor Farshid Moussavi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Salter PRA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ryan Gander RA
• Sir Christopher Mark Le Brun
• Stephen Lyon Chambers
• Wolfgang Tillmans

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Rebecca Salter PRA — trustee here and at Royal Academy Trust

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

• THE FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY income £11.4m
• Royal Academy Trust income £5.4m
• THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART income £16.7m
• ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART STUDENTS' UNION income £644k
• ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS LIMITED income £45k
• ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £33.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.