Royal College of Science Association Trust

Analysis

Royal College of Science Association Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in July 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Royal College of Science Association Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £15k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £30 to £13k (+42443%), an average of +354% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2024, when income rose by 955%. Over the whole period it spent 156% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Royal College of Science Association Trust sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Budbrooke Village Hall (£13k), Friends of Guston School (£13k) and Beaumont Lodge Neighbourhood Association CIO (£13k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.