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THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Registered charity 309268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£41.1m
Latest spending
£37.8m
Registered
1964

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income
£43.4m
Total spending
£37.8m
Cost of raising funds
£1.0m
Reserves (reported)
£60.3m
Employees
279

Reported reserves equal ~19.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

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Trustees

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£41.1m£37.8m
31/07/2024£37.1m£31.2m
31/07/2023£33.3m£32.4m
31/07/2022£32.5m£33.0m
31/07/2021£28.6m£26.7m

Common questions

Who funds THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC as a grant recipient include THE LEVERHULME TRUST, L G HARRIS TRUST, THE LONDON WOMEN'S CLINIC FOUNDATION, NEW GENERATION EUROPE FOUNDATION, THE FOYLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmount
THE LEVERHULME TRUSTFY2024£538k
L G HARRIS TRUSTFY2025£241k
THE LONDON WOMEN'S CLINIC FOUNDATIONFY2025£177k
NEW GENERATION EUROPE FOUNDATIONFY2023£158k
THE FOYLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£75k
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2025£75k
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2023£60k
THE LINBURY TRUSTFY2024£50k
E B M CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£35k
DRAPERS CHARITABLE FUNDFY2024£35k
THE LONDON WOMEN'S CLINIC FOUNDATIONFY2022£30k
HENRY WOOD ACCOMMODATION TRUSTFY2026£30k
HENRY WOOD ACCOMMODATION TRUSTFY2025£30k
E B M CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£30k
HENRY WOOD ACCOMMODATION TRUSTFY2024£29k
THE RISMAN FOUNDATIONFY2025£25k
THE VASEPPI TRUSTFY2023£25k
FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£25k
DAVID LAING FOUNDATIONFY2024£21k
THE HARBOUR FOUNDATIONFY2024£21k
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2024£20k
KATHLEEN BERYL SLEIGH CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£20k
THE SOUTH SQUARE TRUSTFY2023£18k
MARIA BJORNSON MEMORIAL FUNDFY2023£15k
THE HARBOUR FOUNDATIONFY2023£15k
E B M CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£15k
THE POLONSKY FOUNDATIONFY2023£15k
ST MARYLEBONE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONFY2023£13k
ST MARYLEBONE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONFY2023£13k
THE OFENHEIM CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£12k
THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATIONFY2022£10k
THE RISMAN FOUNDATIONFY2024£10k
THE VASEPPI TRUSTFY2024£8k
DAVID LAING FOUNDATIONFY2023£7k
MARIA BJORNSON MEMORIAL FUNDFY2022£5k
MARIA BJORNSON MEMORIAL FUNDFY2024£5k
THE JOHN BOOTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2022£5k
THE MARK LEONARD TRUSTFY2024£5k
THE JOHN BOOTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2022£5k
THE OFENHEIM CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£5k
STANLEY PICKER TRUSTFY2023£5k
STANLEY PICKER TRUSTFY2024£5k
OLD POSSUM'S PRACTICAL TRUSTFY2023£5k
STANLEY PICKER TRUSTFY2025£5k
THE WYSELIOT ROSE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£5k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£3k
THE ASTOR FOUNDATIONFY2022£3k
WILLIAM WALTON AND LA MORTELLA TRUSTFY2022£3k
THE ASTOR FOUNDATIONFY2025£3k
ROYAL COMMISSION FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851FY2024£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund17/11/2015£3.8m"More Music: Re-imagining the Royal College of Music Museum"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund05/03/2014£10k"Singing a Song in a Foreign Land: oral history project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund29/11/1999£18k"Danloux, Portrait of Jan Ladislav Dussek - Acquisition"