THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

Registered charity 223106 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC040430 (OSCR)

The object of the College is:"To encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards in general medical practice and for that purpose to take or join with others in taking any steps consistent with the charitable nature of that object which may assist towards the same."Further details can be found in the annual report

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Latest income
£53.7m
Latest spending
£50.8m
Registered
1963
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves of £18.9m, which is within the agreed target range of £12m to £25m (representing 3 to 6 months of operational expenditure). Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds totalled £72.7m, and the charity reported a net income of £2.87m for the year ended 31 March 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Membership income (42% of income)
“Membership income 22,617”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (42,580 likes) · instagram (18K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£53.7m
Total spending
£50.8m
Cost of raising funds
£7.7m
Reserves (reported)
£18.9m
Employees
288

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 14.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£53.7m£50.8m
31/03/2024£51.5m£46.6m
31/03/2023£46.2m£42.5m
31/03/2022£39.8m£35.2m
31/03/2021£36.6m£34.8m

Common questions

Is THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves of £18.9m, which is within the agreed target range of £12m to £25m (representing 3 to 6 months of operational expenditure). Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds totalled £72.7m, and the charity reported a net income of £2.87m for the year ended 31 March 2025. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS as a grant recipient include GAMBLEAWARE.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
GAMBLEAWAREFY2023£351kEducation

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England19/01/2026£60kPhysical Activity and Lifestyle Project – phase 3
Sport England23/04/2024£75kPhysical Activity and Lifestyle Project – phase 3
UK government14/02/2022£3kRoyal College of General Practitioners
UK government14/02/2022£3kRoyal College of General Practitioners
Sport England27/07/2021£99kPhysical Activity and Lifestyle Clinical Priority project
Sport England22/08/2018£160kPhysical Activity and Lifestyle Clinical Priority project
The National Lottery Heritage Fund20/09/2000£8k"RCGP Archive's Personal Papers Cataloguing Project"

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS£53.7m——unclear—no doubt
ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS FY2024£20.5m——unclear—no doubt
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC FY2025£41.1m——unclear—no doubt
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS FY2025£7.9m——above—no doubt
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTORS FY2025£558k—0below—no doubt
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE FY2024£13.0m£160,001 - £170,000—below—no doubt

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