BERLIN INFANTRY BRIGADE MEMORIAL TRUST FUND

Registered charity 1024549 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIBMTF

The trust aims to make soldiering fun. It does this by making a very wide range of grants to units, formations & individuals. These are mainly, but not exclusively, in support of adventurous training or sport not paid for out of public moneys.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN IN SUCH WAYS AS THE MANAGING TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT B) TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY FORMER MEMBERS OF THE SAID ARMED FORCES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased to £4,461,878, with unrestricted funds covering all liabilities. The charity relies entirely on investment returns for income and explicitly states that no regular fundraising activities are employed. Administrative costs are covered by property fund distributions, and the trustees consider the charity to be a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIGADIER MEEKchair
• Colonel Smith
• General Charles Ronald Vincent Walker
• LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROSENHEAD
• Major Allan Ridler RE
• Major Angela Marie Laycock RE
• Major General Jonathan Swift
• Major Stephen Andrew Sharpe
• Major Sugdon

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

Operates in: Germany

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NUFFIELD TRUST FOR THE FORCES OF THE CROWN.

• NUFFIELD TRUST FOR THE FORCES OF THE CROWN income £1.4m
• THE RIFLES REGIMENTAL TRUST income £574k
• THE ARMY DEPENDANTS' TRUST income £2.1m
• THE BERSAM TRUST income £234k
• ARMY RUGBY UNION TRUST income £885k
• BRITISH MOTOR SPORTS TRAINING TRUST income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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