ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

Registered charity 212808 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1584160 · Wikipedia

The College is involved in a wide range of activities that influence and support the professional development of surgeons and the delivery of surgical services. These activities include monitoring the progress of trainees; running examinations for trainees; running courses for surgeons throughout their career; and awarding research fellowships.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SURGERY.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 total reserves decreased marginally to £144m, with unrestricted funds standing at £96.0m. The charity reports a net income position of £1.0m for the year, driven by significant growth in charitable and legacy income, despite a sharp decline in investment returns. The trustees confirm the organization 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 Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 16/08/2024, 108 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 29/06/2022, 60 days after the 30/04/2022 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.

In the news

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

• Jaipur Surgeon Becomes Rajasthan’s First to Serve as a Faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons of England theindianpanorama.news · 28/08/2026
• KPJ Healthcare University Strengthens the KPJ Health System Through Landmark Surgical Partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons of England theedgemalaysia.com · 20/05/2026
• GEMS Hospital earns Royal College of Surgeons of England accreditation thehindu.com · 07/05/2026
• University of Portsmouth PhD graduate awarded Hunterian Lectureship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England port.ac.uk · 10/04/2026
• Universiti Malaya’s Faculty of Dentistry receives prestigious accreditation from Royal College of Surgeons of England astroawani.com · 29/03/2026
• Cancer Research UK partners with the Royal College of Surgeons of England to help people with rectal cancer avoid unnecessary surgery - Cancer Research UK news.cancerresearchuk.org · 03/03/2026
• Clinical Audit of Postoperative Documentation in the Kassala Teaching Hospital, Sudan: Compliance With Royal College of Surgeons of England Guidelines cureus.com · 26/08/2025
• New Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England ucl.ac.uk · 03/04/2025

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Eastwood
• Frank Smith
• Ginny Bowbrick
• Joanna Kirby
• Martyn Cobourne
• Nuha Yassin
• Peter Sagar
• Professor Andrew Carr
• Simon Davis
• Tim Lane
• Vanessa Leung

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.

• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON income £46.3m
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGISTS income £15.2m
• ROYAL COLLEGE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS income £9.5m
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS income £53.7m
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS income £7.9m
• ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS income £20.5m

Side by side with its peers

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