THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL TRUST

Registered charity 285111 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trust receives and invests funds in support of the maintenance and preservation of the Royal Albert Hall, a Grade 1 listed building of historic and cultural significance, and of the work of the Hall in seeking to advance education for public benefit by the provision of such instructive activities that relate to the Hall as the Trustees shall from time to time determine.

Objects

THE MAINTENANCE, PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, IMPROVEMENT, RENEWAL, DECORATION AND GENERAL UPKEEP OF THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL.TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH INSTRUCTIVE ACTIVITIES THAT RELATE TO THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · 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 holds unrestricted reserves of £130,000, which the trustees believe there is no specific need for given the charity's objects. The charity reported a net expenditure of £1.3 million for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £3.4 million to £2.1 million, with the majority of remaining funds being restricted for specific building and engagement projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith 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
• 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
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Maxchair
• Ian Isaac Rosenblatt
• Nigel Hamway
• Stuart William Newey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Alexander van Straubenzee

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CORPORATION OF THE HALL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

• THE CORPORATION OF THE HALL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES income £72.1m
• ROYAL HOSPITAL SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £202k
• Royal Academy Trust income £5.4m
• THE BECKFORD TOWER TRUST income £235k
• THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST income £8.4m
• DERBYSHIRE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £196k

Side by side with its peers

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