ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Registered charity 1195523 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated in a budget surplus with no debts for the year ended 31 December 2024. However, the trustees note that the economic disruption associated with global conflicts and inflation, alongside the unpredictability of journal income, gives cause for concern. The charity continues to hold unrestricted reserves above its stated policy target to mitigate these financial risks.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Friend-James Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~36.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chris Hann · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Helene NEVEU KRINGELBACH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr SIMON UNDERDOWN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Shireen Walton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Thorpe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof Paul Basu · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Ann MacLarnon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Ann Rosalind David · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Bruce Gibson
• Professor Deborah James
• Professor Emma Crewe
• Professor Garry Marvin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Haidy Gaismar
• Professor Hazel Andrews · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor John Anthony Jamys Gowlett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Jonathan Spencer
• Professor Judith Aston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Julian Thomas
• Professor Lucina Hackman
• Professor Maya Unnithan
• Professor Pamela Kia
• Professor Paul Lane · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Richard Fardon · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

• ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £528k
• ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (WITH THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS) income £6.1m
• THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS income £20.2m
• ROYAL INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION income £705k
• THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA income £966k
• THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN income £9.8m

Side by side with its peers

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