ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS

Registered charity 212513 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7373851 · Wikipedia · also known as R B S, ROYAL BRITISH SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS, ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH SCULPTORS

Established over 100 years ago, the Society promotes excellence in the art and practice of sculpture. It aims to inspire, inform and engage everyone with sculpture and to support sculptors' development of their practice to the highest professional standards.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE ART OF SCULPTURE

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Fordchair
• Andrea Geile
• Anna Clare Gillespie
• Barbara Beyer
• Bill Price
• Edwina Sassoon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eugene Nyee Macki
• Gordon Watson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Ashton
• MarK Lowrie Burch
• Maria Teresa Chadwick Irarrazaval
• NICHOLAS HORNBY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

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