List of organisations with a British royal charter

This is a list of organisations with a British royal charter. It includes organisations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, in chronological order, that have received a royal charter from an English, Scottish, or British monarch.
The list of organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter is an alphabetical list of organisations in the UK.

Table

Kingdom of England

13th and 14th century

see table above.

16th century

1582 University of Edinburgh
Kingdom of Great Britain

18th century

1700s

15 July 1704 Bermondsey tanners Surrey/ Greater London
1710s
23 May 1711 Blanket Weavers in Witney, Oxfordshire
3 December 1711 Loriners' Company
29 July 1714 Worcester College, Oxford
24 July 1718 French Protestant Hospital
27 July 1719 Music Society for Carrying on Operas and other entertainments
1720s
22 June 1720 London Assurance Corporation
22 June 1720 Royal Exchange Assurance
1727 The Royal Bank of Scotland
31 July 1729 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Halifax
1730s
17 October 1739 Foundling Hospital
1740s
28 April 1741 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Norwich and Norfolk
13 April 1742 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Suffolk
5 July 11 October British Linen Bank
29 April 1747 Governors of the Charity for the relief of the poor Widows and Orphans of Beneficed Clergymen or having Curacys in the County of Essex the Deanery of Braughing and Archdeaconry of St. Albans, County of Hertford and Diocese of London
1750s
2 November 1751 Society of Antiquaries of London
9 December 1758 London Hospital
1760s
8 June 1765 Bethel Hospital, Norwich
1770s
19 June 1773 Carron Company
1773 Royal Medical Society
27 January 1774 Society of Advocates in Aberdeen
1780s
24 March 1781 Governors of the possessions etc. of the Free Chapel of Hindon within the parish of East Knoyle, Wiltshire
29 March 1783 Royal Society of Edinburgh
6 May 1783 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
9 June 1783 Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
10 July 1786 Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
17 May 1787 Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
1790s
26 August 1790 Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain
21 December 1791 Glasgow Royal Infirmary
9 January 1792 Society for the Benefit of Sons and Daughters of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland
30 October 1794 Christian Faith Society
6 June 1796 Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
24 January 1797 Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
28 June 1798 Ayr Academy
19th century

1800s

13 January 1800 Royal Institution of Great Britain
22 March 1800 Royal College of Surgeons of England
22 September 1800 Downing College, Cambridge
United Kingdom

19th century

1800s

19 April 1801 James Gillespie's Hospital and Free School
26 March 1802 Linnean Society of London
12 May 1802 University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
7 April 1807 Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary
17 April 1809 Royal Horticultural Society
1810s
23 May 1817 National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales
13 January 1818 Royal Edinburgh Public Dispensary
19 May 1818 Royal Literary Fund
8 May 1819 Dundee Royal Infirmary
1820s
1820 Faculty of Procurators and Solicitors in Dundee
31 March 1821 McGill University, Montreal
6 February 1824 Edinburgh Academy
11 August 1824 Royal Asiatic Society
14 October 1824 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
1 November 1824 Australian Agricultural Company
9 December 1824 Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital
23 April 1825 Geological Society of London
15 September 1825 Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
10 November 1825 Van Diemen's Land Company
28 June 1826 University Life Assurance Society
19 August 1826 Canada Company
15 March 1827 University of Toronto
2 August 1827 Society for the management and distribution of the Artists Fund
6 February 1828 St David's College, Lampeter
3 June 1828 Institution of Civil Engineers
27 March 1829 Zoological Society of London
14 August 1829 King's College London
1830s
18 January 1830 General Lying-in Hospital
23 June 1830 Royal Academy of Music
7 March 1831 Royal Astronomical Society
6 August 1832 Cambridge Philosophical Society
20 March 1834 British American Land Company
30 September 1834 Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
3 May 1836 Society of Licensed Victuallers
28 November 1836 University of London
11 January 1837 Royal Institute of British Architects
1 June 1837 University of Durham
7 June 1837 Company of Stationers of Glasgow
26 April 1838 Royal Naval Benevolent Society
13 August 1838 Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture
26 August 1839 Mauritius Commercial Bank
1840s
26 March 1840 Royal Agricultural Society of England
29 January 1840 Pacific Steam Navigation Company
1 August 1840 Society of Solicitors of Banffshire
10 November 1840 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
16 March 1841 Bank of Australasia
16 October 1841 Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
16 March 1842 McLachlan's Free School
30 June 1842 Artists General Benevolent Institution
15 December 1842 Licensed Victuallers Asylum
18 February 1843 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
3 April 1843 Royal Grammar School Worcester
27 April 1843 Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses Worcester
18 January 1844 Ionian Bank
8 March 1844 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
26 February 1845 The Law Society
21 August 1845 Marlborough College
13 January 1845 Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada
30 June 1845 Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
1845 Queen's College of Belfast
1846 Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
3 February 1847 Royal Society of British Artists
20 May 1847 Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.
17 July 1847 Eastern Archipelago Company
8 May 1848 Governesses Benevolent Institution
27 June 1848 Missionary College of Saint Augustine Canterbury
4 September 1848 Chemical Society
16 December 1848 College of Preceptors
1 March 1849 Warneford Lunatic Asylum
30 July 1849 Royal British Bank
1850s
14 August 1850 Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
12 December 1850 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
5 May 1851 Educational Institute of Scotland
23 October 1851 Falkland Islands Company
23 October 1851 Leith Chamber of Commerce
16 July 1852 University of Trinity College, Toronto
8 December 1852 Université Laval, Quebec
5 April 1852 General Theatrical Fund Association
28 January 1853 Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec
13 December 1853 Wellington College
13 June 1853 Council and Committee of Queen's College
19 August 1853 Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
7 April 1854 Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
7 April 1854 City of Worcester Association for Building Dwellings for the Labouring Classess
13 September 1854 Society of Accountants in Edinburgh
18 October 1854 London and Eastern Banking Corporation
7 February 1857 Society of Procurators and Solicitors in the City and Country of Perth
12 July 1857 Hospital for Women
3 February 1858 University of Sydney
11 January 1859 Royal Geographical Society
6 July 1859 Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen Tailors
23 September 1859 National Benevolent Institution, founded by the late Peter Herve
22 October 1859 High School of Dundee
1860s
23 January 1860 Royal United Service Institution
7 March 1860 Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
5 August 1861 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
20 November 1861 Glasgow Art Union
19 July 1862 Salisbury Infirmary
1 November 1862 Asylum for Idiots
1 November 1862 Saint Andrew's College, Bradfield
3 February 1864 Dundee Chamber of Commerce
3 February 1864 Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
3 February 1864 Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men
7 April 1864 Natal Native Trust
9 July 1864 Friend of the Clergy
9 July 1864 Albert Middle Class College in Suffolk
28 July 1864 Haileybury College
1 November 1864 Printers' Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation
5 December 1865 Meteorological Society
9 May 1866 Corporation for Middle Class Education in the Metropolis and the Suburbs thereof
26 July 1866 Microscopical Society
28 December 1866 Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences
26 February 1867 Preceptor, Patrons and Directors of Baillie's Institution in Glasgow
4 November 1867 Association for the Protection of Commercial Interests as respects Wrecked and Damaged Property
30 July 1868 Crossley Orphan Home and School
14 September 1868 Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland
1870s
4 June 1870 Keble College, Oxford
6 July 1871 Incorporated Lay Body of the Church of England in Jamaica
17 March 1875 Royal Veterinary College
13 May 1875 Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum
23 October 1876 North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
7 February 1877 Clifton College
11 July 1877 University of the Cape of Good Hope
1880s
18 March 1880 Victoria University
24 March 1880 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
2 March 1881 University of Adelaide
15 July 1881 Surveyors' Institution
31 July 1881 Royal College Colombo, Sri Lanka
26 August 1881 South Wales Institute of Engineers
18 August 1882 Selwyn College, Cambridge
18 August 1882 Royal Colonial Institute
20 April 1883 Royal College of Music
23 August 1883 Charing Cross Hospital
12 December 1883 Incorporated Society of Law Agents in Scotland
26 June 1884 St. Paul's Hostel, Cambridge
29 July 1884 Institute of Actuaries
11 August 1884 University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire
29 November 1884 Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
30 December 1884 Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest on the separate or Cottage principle
26 March 1885 University College of North Wales
19 May 1885 Queen Charlotte's Lying in Hospital
19 May 1885 Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland
24 June 1885 Entomological Society of London
8 March 1886 Princess Helena College
14 January 1887 Royal Statistical Society
27 November 1887Belfast Royal Academy
7 February 1888 Trustees of the Buchanan Bequest
7 February 1888 Corporation of the Church House
3 May 1888 Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England
5 July 1889 Royal Historical Society
23 July 1889 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
19 August 1889 Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
19 August 1889 Imperial Bank of Persia
15 October 1889 British South Africa Company
1890s
8 February 1890 Institute of Journalists
21 October 1890 National Rifle Association
21 October 1890 Rossall School
21 October 1890 St. Peter's College, Radley
22 November 1890 Newspaper Press Fund
9 May 1891 Royal Provident Fund for Sea Fishermen
30 July 1891 Chartered Institute of Patent Agents
5 August 1892 Governors of the Buchanan Retreat
16 May 1893 Royal British Nurses' Association
23 November 1893 University of Wales
23 November 1893 Royal College of Organists
1894 West London Hospital
11 May 1895 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
26 November 1897 Queen Victoria Clergy Fund
17 February 1898 Library Association
19 May 1898 Corporation of the Cranleigh and Bramley Schools
19 May 1898 Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
9 August 1898 Royal Blind Asylum and School, Edinburgh
7 March 1899 St. Andrew's Ambulance Association
14 July 1899 Grand Antiquity Society of Glasgow
7 October 1899 British Home and Hospital for Incurables
20th century

1900s

3 March 1900 University of Birmingham
17 September 1900 City and Guilds of London Institute
17 September 1900 Great Northern Central Hospital
27 March 1901 Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
26 July 1902 British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies
21 August 1902 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
15 September 1902 Weavers Society of Anderston
20 October 1902 Chartered Institute of Secretaries of Joint Stock Companies and other Public Bodies
19 November 1902 Royal Economic Society
16 February 1903 Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables
16 February 1903 Royal Society for Home Relief to Incurables, Edinburgh
9 July 1903 Victoria University of Manchester
9 July 1903 University of Liverpool
9 July 1903 Chartered Society of Queen Square
10 August 1903 University College of Nottingham
11 February 1904 Royal Numismatic Society
21 April 1904 University of Leeds
15 July 1904 West India Committee
10 August 1904 British Cotton Growing Association
24 October 1904 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
29 May 1905 University of Sheffield
11 July 1905 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
11 May 1906 British and Foreign School Society
30 June 1906 Institute of Directors
1 December 1906 Hull Royal Infirmary
11 February 1907 Royal Warrant Holders Association
1 March 1907 National Museum of Wales
1 March 1907 National Library of Wales
1 June 1907 Society of Chemical Industry
6 July 1907 Imperial College of Science and Technology
2 November 1907 Royal Society of South Africa
21 December 1908 Bedford College for Women
1 August 1908 British Red Cross Society
17 May 1909 University of Bristol
10 August 1909 Royal British Colonial Society of Artists
1910s
22 April 1910 Cancer Hospital
13 October 1910 Association of Deacons of the Fourteen Incorporated Trades of Glasgow
28 November 1910 Institution of Naval Architects
23 January 1911 Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association
25 May 1911 Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
16 December 1911 Scout Association
17 January 1912 Chartered Insurance Institute
14 May 1912 King Edward the Seventh Welsh National Memorial Association
14 June 1912 British School at Rome
16 December 1912 King Edward VII Sanatorium
11 February 1913 Paton Trust
24 June 1913 Zoological Society of Scotland
7 October 1913 Royal West of England Academy
14 October 1913 Royal Asylum of Montrose
14 October 1913 Montrose Royal Infirmary
30 March 1914 Liverpool Merchants Guild
7 January 1915 Institution of Mining Engineers
7 January 1915 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
2 June 1915 University of Tasmania
23 May 1916 School of Oriental Studies, London Institution
7 September 1916 Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves
30 March 1917 Newnham College, Cambridge
10 May 1917 Imperial War Graves Commission
19 May 1917 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
27 November 1917 Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End
14 January 1919 Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trustees
24 February 1919 Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow
15 April 1919 Representative Body of the Church in Wales
30 May 1919 Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, Putney
9 December 1919 Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
9 December 1919 University College of Swansea
20 December 1919 King George's Fund for Sailors
20 December 1919 Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund
1920s
11 March 1920 Leicester Royal Infirmary
25 March 1920 Medical Research Council
25 March 1920 Forestry Commissioners
17 May 1920 Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom
17 May 1920 Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics
28 June 1920 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
13 October 1920 St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington
10 June 1921 Officers' Association
14 July 1921 Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London
10 August 1921 Institution of Electrical Engineers
11 October 1921 Empire Forestry Association
11 October 1921 Empire Cotton Growing Corporation
7 November 1921 Institute of British Foundrymen
13 December 1921 Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
6 February 1922 Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
3 March 1922 Royal Victoria College, Montreal
3 March 1922 Over-Seas League
1 April 1922 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
5 May 1922 Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
20 June 1922 St. John's Foundation School
10 August 1922 College of Estate Management
6 December 1922 Toc H
6 December 1922 Girl Guides Association
29 January 1923 Institution of Royal Engineers
12 March 1923 British Institute of Florence
4 May 1923 Confederation of British Industry
4 May 1923 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Hospital
26 June 1923 Cardiff Royal Infirmary
11 October 1923 Dover College
21 March 1924 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
25 June 1924 Royal Life Saving Society
25 July 1924 Girton College, Cambridge
6 February 1925 The Textile Institute
17 March 1925 British Legion
12 October 1925 London Playing Fields Society
12 October 1925 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
16 December 1925 Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association
1 February 1926 University of Reading
25 February 1926 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
25 February 1926 St. Hilda's College, Oxford
25 February 1926 Birkbeck College
25 February 1926 Royal Medico Psychological Association
30 April 1926 Somerville College, Oxford
1 June 1926 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys
1 June 1926 The Mothers' Union
28 June 1926 Royal Institute of International Affairs
28 June 1926 St. Hugh's College, Oxford
5 November 1926 Institute of Transport
20 November 1926 British Broadcasting Corporation
14 December 1926 National Police Fund
22 March 1928 British Association for the Advancement of Science
22 March 1928 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
13 July 1928 College of Nursing
14 August 1928 Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee
20 November 1928 London Homeopathic Hospital
20 November 1928 National Art Collection Fund
21 December 1928 Malvern College
29 January 1929 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
1 March 1929 Howard Leopold Davis Scholarships Trust
21 March 1929 British Engineering Standards Association
10 May 1929 Indian Church Trustees
10 May 1929 Institution of Gas Engineers
5 July 1929 Institute of Hygiene
17 December 1929 King George Hospital at Ilford
1930s
20 January 1930 Royal Society for the Relief of Indigent Gentlewomen of Scotland
28 March 1930 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
28 July 1930 King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, Sister Agnes Founder
28 July 1930 Honourable Company of Master Mariners
28 July 1930 Oundle School
28 July 1930 East Ham Memorial Hospital
18 December 1930 Welsh National School of Medicine
29 June 1931 British Postgraduate Medical School
1 October 1931 Glasgow Fishmongers Company
7 October 1931 Australian Chemical Institute
7 October 1931 Royal Seamen's Pension Fund
11 February 1932 Universities China Committee in London
15 December 1932 National Playing Fields Association
16 March 1933 Institute of Marine Engineers
25 May 1933 London Library
26 June 1933 Westfield College, London
22 March 1934 Institution of Structural Engineers
9 November 1934 Queen Mary College
20 December 1934 City of London Maternity Hospital
21 February 1935 Cheltenham Ladies' College
6 June 1935 Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
13 August 1935 Institution of Engineers
20 December 1935 Royal Academy of Dancing
13 April 1937 Worshipful Company of Basketmakers
29 July 1937 General Infirmary at Leeds
24 February 1938 Institution of Engineers Australia
25 November 1938 Roedean School
25 May 1939 National Association of Boy's Clubs
25 July 1939 Imperial Cancer Research Fund
1940s
19 September 1940 British Council
30 May 1941 Australian Red Cross Society
26 June 1946 King's School, Canterbury
26 June 1946 Worshipful Company of Carmen
10 July 1946 Arts Council of Great Britain
10 July 1946 Institute of Fuel
29 January 1947 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
10 March 1947 British Postgraduate Medical Federation
28 October 1947 Scottish National War Memorial Trustees
28 October 1947 Officers Families Fund
9 July 1948 University of Nottingham
13 September 1948 Wye College
13 September 1948 Institution of Municipal Engineers
25 October 1948 British and Foreign Bible Society
22 December 1948 Royal Aeronautical Society
22 December 1948 University College of the West Indies
4 March 1949 National Institute for the Blind
30 June 1949 University College of North Staffordshire
25 November 1949 Railway Benevolent Institution
1950s
31 March 1950 Royal Alfred Merchant Seamen's Society
25 April 1950 Women's Royal Naval Service Benevolent Trust
25 April 1950 Standards Association of Australia
9 October 1950 University College of Leicester
8 December 1950 Worshipful Company of Musicians
21 December 1950 Campbell College, Belfast
1 November 1951 Ceylon Red Cross Society
14 November 1951 Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
24 March 1952 University of Southampton
9 April 1952 School of Pharmacy, University of London
29 April 1952 St Anne's College, Oxford
29 July 1952 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls
25 November 1952 Principal and Governors of Queen Elizabeth College
4 December 1952 Royal Air Forces Association
1 April 1953 St Antony's College, Oxford
30 April 1953 Faculty of Radiologists
20 January 1954 Australian Academy of Science
13 May 1954 University of Hull
15 July 1954 Royal Naval Association
21 December 1954 Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
10 February 1955 University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
7 April 1955 Cuddesdon Theological College
7 April 1955 Seafarers Education Service
29 July 1955 Manchester College of Science and Technology
29 July 1955 Company of Farmers of the City of London
29 July 1955 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
28 October 1955 University of Exeter
9 October 1956 Royal Ballet
15 February 1957 St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
22 February 1957 Institution of Chemical Engineers
15 March 1957 University of Leicester
17 May 1957 City of London Solicitors' Company
23 August 1957 English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth
19 February 1958 British Institute of Radiology
14 March 1958 Nuffield College, Oxford
21 November 1958 Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants
19 December 1958 Royal Humane Society
15 June 1959 Town Planning Institute
21 December 1959 Fourah Bay College - The University College of Sierra Leone
1960s
8 April 1960 National Army Museum
3 August 1960 Churchill College, Cambridge
26 October 1960 Westcott House, Cambridge
2 August 1961 University of Sussex
24 October 1961 Royal Archaeological Institute
24 October 1961 St. Peter's College, Oxford
6 December 1961 University of Keele
21 December 1961 Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
26 February 1962 University of the West Indies
2 October 1962 Magistrates' Association
28 November 1962 Library Association of Australia
26 March 1963 Society of Dyers and Colourists
2 May 1963 Royal Society of St. George
30 May 1963 Association of Commonwealth Universities
29 July 1963 University of York
29 July 1963 St. Catherine's College, Oxford
29 July 1963 Animal Health Trust
27 November 1963 University of East Anglia
27 November 1963 University of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland
26 March 1964 Institution of Production Engineers
23 June 1964 University of Strathclyde
23 June 1964 Liverpool Medical Institution
27 July 1964 University of Lancaster
20 November 1964 University of Kent at Canterbury
20 November 1964 University of Essex
29 January 1965 University of Warwick
26 February 1965 Science Research Council
26 February 1965 British Psychological Society
4 May 1965 Natural Environment Research Council
3 August 1965 London Mathematical Society
29 October 1965 Social Science Research Council
31 January 1966 Heriot-Watt University
24 February 1966 Loughborough University of Technology
10 March 1966 University of Aston in Birmingham
6 April 1966 City University, London
9 June 1966 Brunel University
28 July 1966 University of Surrey
28 July 1966 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
20 September 1966 University of Bradford
20 September 1966 Bath University of Technology
10 February 1967 University of Salford
28 June 1967 University of Dundee
28 July 1967 Royal College of Art
23 August 1967 Australian Boy Scouts Association
10 October 1967 Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers, Australia
13 November 1967 University of Stirling
13 November 1967 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology
22 March 1968 Royal African Society
1969 Royal Hong Kong Police, reverted to Hong Kong Police after Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong
23 April 1969 The Open University
25 June 1969 Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Advancement of Scholarship in Language, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Fine Arts
-July 1969 Australian Institute of Building
28 November 1969 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
28 November 1969 Cranfield Institute of Technology
19 December 1969 Royal College of Pathologists
1970s
4 February 1970 Jockey Club
4 February 1970 University of the South Pacific
28 July 1970 New University of Ulster
30 September 1970 Institute of Physics
11 March 1971 Heythrop College
22 December 1971 Chelsea College, University of London
22 December 1971 Sports Council
22 December 1971 Scottish Sports Council
22 December 1971 Sports Council for Wales
28 June 1972 New Hall, Cambridge
23 October 1972 Royal College of General Practitioners
24 October 1973 Anglo-German Foundation for the study of Industrial Society
16 October 1974 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
12 February 1975 Institute of Cost and Management Accountants
12 February 1975 Institution of Metallurgists
18 March 1975 Institute of Measurement and Control
12 November 1975 College of Law
17 March 1976 Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers under title of "Chartered Institution of Building Services"
19 May 1976 Design Council
19 May 1976 Society of Industrial Artists and Designers
9 June 1976 Darwin College, Cambridge
15 September 1976 Institute of Bankers in Scotland
27 October 1976 Wolfson College, Cambridge
15 November 1977 University College London
25 April 1978 Carnegie Trustees for the Universities of Scotland
6 February 1979 Institute of Arbitrators
14 March 1979 Building Societies Institute
14 March 1979 Institute of Biology
1980s
13 February 1980 King's College London
19 March 1980 Royal Society of Chemistry
28 July 1980 Chartered Institute of Building
18 February 1981 Wolfson College, Oxford
28 October 1981 Engineering Council
10 February 1982 Institute of Foresters
11 February 1983 University of Buckingham
22 June 1983 British Film Institute
18 May 1983 Crafts Council
20 April 1984 Fellowship of Engineering
11 April 1984 Industrial Society
25 June 1984 Institute of Housing
25 June 1984 Institution of Environmental Health Officers
31 July 1984 University of Ulster
31 July 1984 British Computer Society
12 September 1984 Clare Hall, Cambridge
30 October 1984 Robinson College, Cambridge
5 June 1986 Linacre College, Oxford
8 July 1986 London Graduate School of Business Studies
10 February 1987 Institute of Bankers
10 June 1987 University of London Institute of Education
23 March 1988 College of Ophthalmologists
27 April 1988 Motability
7 February 1989 The Chartered Institute of Marketing
2 August 1989 Queen Mary and Westfield College
19 December 1989 Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind
1 November 1989 Goldsmiths College, University of London
1990s
7 June 1990 The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
26 June 1990 Royal Star and Garter Home
21 May 1991 The Henley Management College
11 February 1992 Royal College of Anaesthetists
15 July 1992 Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply
16 December 1993 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
16 December 1993 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
16 December 1993 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
8 February 1994 Arts Council of England
8 February 1994 Scottish Arts Council
8 February 1994 Arts Council of Wales
15 March 1994 The Chartered Institute of Taxation
14 December 1994 Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
14 December 1994 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
11 April 1995 Mansfield College, Oxford
11 April 1995 Templeton College, Oxford
28 June 1995 The College of Optometrists
23 November 1995 Manchester College, Oxford
13 March 1996 York Borough Council
13 March 1996 Cardiff County Council
26 June 1996 Sedgefield Borough Council
23 July 1996 North East Lincolnshire Borough Council
23 July 1996 Sport England
23 July 1996 UK Sport
23 July 1996 College Paediatrics and Child Health
26 June 1997 Landscape Institute
22 July 1997 Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
22 July 1997 Brighton and Hove Borough Council
11 February 1998 Medway Borough Council
11 February 1998 Historic Royal Palaces
22 April 1998 St Edmund's College, Cambridge
15 October 1998 North Lincolnshire Borough Council
12 October 1999 The Prince's Trust
24 November 1999 Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund
21st century
8 February 2000 Institute of Personnel and Development
12 July 2000 The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
11 April 2001 Institution of Incorporated Engineers
11 December 2001 Chartered Institute of Wastes Management
12 February 2002 Chartered Management Institute
12 February 2002 Telford and the Wrekin Borough Council
26 June 2002 Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
12 June 2003 The Science Council
15 December 2003 Thames Valley University
11 February 2004 The Worshipful Company of Engineers
11 February 2004 The Worshipful Company of Paviors
8 May 2004 Society for the Environment
27 July 2004 The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
13 October 2004 Association for Science Education
22 July 2005 Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
10 December 2007 Society for Radiological Protection
11 March 2010 Homerton College, University of Cambridge
15 May 2013 The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
15 May 2013 Welsh Livery Guild
17 January 2014 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences
22 March 2018 Police Roll of Honour Trust
1 December 2018 National Citizen Service

List of organisations with a British royal charter

Table

Kingdom of England

13th and 14th century

15th century

16th century

1500-1549

1550-1599

17th century

1600s

1610s

1620s

1630s

1650s

1660s

1670s

1680s

1690s

18th century

1700s

Kingdom of Scotland

16th century

Kingdom of Great Britain

18th century

1700s

1710s

1720s

1730s

1740s

1750s

1760s

1770s

1780s

1790s

19th century

1800s

United Kingdom

19th century

1800s

1810s

1820s

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

20th century

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

21st century