Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

Spending falling: -1
Volatile income: -3
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Only 4 Trustees: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -4

ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY

Through youth empowerment, education and high-level advocacy, the RCS champions the importance of literacy, equality and inclusion, the environment and connected communities in the Commonwealth. Non-partisan and independent, we convene and connect Commonwealth political and diplomatic representatives, as well as industry, civil society, academic and business leaders, on a wide range of issues.

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Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£348	£373	£-24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/22		£367	£312	£56	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21		£349	£280	£69	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20		£1,171	£1,051	£120	£44	£303	£303	3.5	7	12
31/03/19	*	£981	£1,208	£-226	£104	£198	£188	1.9	12	12
31/03/18?	*	£912	£1,037	£-124	£190	£448	£247	2.9	12	0
31/12/16		£650	£883	£-232	£127	£509	£326	4.4	15	0
31/12/15		£756	£840	£-85	£108	£702	£542	7.7	11	0
31/12/14		£927	£669	£258	£173	£799	£649	11.6	11	0
31/12/13		£730	£937	£-207	£313	£692	£566	7.2	9	0
31/12/12		£1,076	£1,474	£-398	£477	£863	£728	5.9	12	0
31/12/11		£1,055	£1,443	£-387	£294	£1,079	£943	7.8	12	0
31/12/10		£1,721	£2,358	£-637	£1,046	£1,504	£1,402	7.1	27	0
31/12/09		£2,585	£3,243	£-658	£1,984	£2,100	£2,048	7.6	47	0
31/12/08		£3,147	£3,672	£-525	£2,367	£2,641	£2,588	8.5	54	0
31/12/07	*	£3,292	£3,623	£-331	£2,411	£3,320	£3,228	10.7	58	0
31/12/06		£1,032	£1,503	£-471	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£508	£919	£-411	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£2,401	£2,264	£137	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 60 years

www.royalcwsociety.org

info@royalcwsociety.org

02037274300

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Other Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
30 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

DAVID STEAD Appointed: 2019

DR LINDA YUEH CBE Appointed: 2016, Other trusteeship: ST EDMUND HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

PAUL GREEN Appointed: 2020, Other trusteeships: DEAL MUSIC AND ARTS LIMITED, SMART PARKS,

SARAH HAIDRY Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: THE MADRINHA TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/11/1964, number: 226748
Registered at Companies House on 01/01/1970, number: RC000469

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
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

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR19: 16 days late, AR18: 50 days late, AR07: 188 days late,

Main office

Royal Commonwealth Society
65 Basinghall Street
London
EC2V 5DZ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE WITHIN OUR UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS THE INCREASE AND SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE RESPECTING THE PEOPLE AND COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THEIR CULTURES BY PROVIDING A CENTRAL COMMONWEALTH MEETING PLACE WITH CULTURAL AND SOCIAL FACILITIES FOR MEMBERS. (SEE SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER)

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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