THE ROYAL GURKHA RIFLES TRUST

Registered charity 1036834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity makes a range of grants that support regimental activity that is not adequately or directly provided from public funds. The trustees recognise the benefits that this brings to the regiment and the Army in contributing to the creation and maintenance of morale.

Objects

(1) THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REGIMENT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE MANAGING TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE (2) TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY SERVING OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE BRIGADE AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED,HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (THE BENEFICIARIES) (3) FOSTERING ESPIRIT DE CORPS,COMRADESHIP AND THE WELFARE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT AND PRESERVING ITS HISTORY AND TRADITIONS AND THE HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF THE BRIGADE

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.

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Registered contact address: Woking, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains a going concern with unrestricted reserves of approximately £104,954 held in investment funds. The filing notes an excess of expenditure over income of £14,236.88 for the year, which was covered by capital receipts. The trustees report that the charity enjoys considerable annual income from the soldiers’ day’s pay scheme, enabling it to cover most charitable outgoings.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brigadier David Thomas Pack
• Brigadier Jody Philip Davies
• Cameron Robert Ross
• Colonel David John Robinson
• Colonel James Nicholas Briers Birch OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lieutenant Colonel John Jeffcoat RGR
• Lieutenant Colonel Peter Alexander Houlton-Hart RGR
• Richard Thomas Hakes

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

Operates in: Brunei · Malaysia · Nepal

Income and spending

Common questions

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• THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT CHARITY income £556k
• KING'S ROYAL HUSSARS REGIMENTAL TRUST income £171k
• THE QUEEN'S GURKHA ENGINEERS TRUST FUND income £30k
• THE 7TH DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES REGIMENTAL TRUST income £25k

Side by side with its peers

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