Regional Studies Association

Analysis

Regional Studies Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Brighton. It was registered in December 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04116288). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Regional Studies Association reported income of £1.4m and spending of £1.3m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £876k to £1.4m (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Regional Studies Association sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Institute for Research in Schools (£1.4m), Sandwell Valley School (£1.4m) and Institution of Railway Signal Engineering (£1.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 93% and investments 6.5%. Charitable activities took 93% of spending and raising funds 3.3%. Grants to other organisations totalled £76k. Reserves of £5.0m would cover about 44 months of spending at that rate. It employed 8 people.