THE BRIGADE OF GURKHAS EDUCATION AND WELFARE FUND

Registered charity 1043000 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides benefit to serving members of the Brigade of Gurkhas and their families. Key activities: welfare and well being, education and training, medical, recreational facilities and improvement of conditions in theatres of operations

Objects

Objects1. The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund and its income upon trust to apply them for such one or more of the following objects in the United Kingdom or elsewhere as the Trustees in their absolute discretion shall determine.a. The promotion of the efficiency of the Brigade of Gurkhas (BG) in such ways as the Trustees from time to time decide.b. The promotion of the education (including social and physical training) of child(ren) of those serving, wounded in action (WIA) or killed in action (KIA), members of the BG. c. The relief of serving members of the BG and their dependants who are in need, hardship and distress. 2. Without limiting in any way the generality of the objects of the Charity, the Trust may apply the income and capital of the Charity in any or all of the following ways:a. In fostering esprit de corps, comradeship and the welfare of the members of the BG and families, and preserving its history and traditions and to include social media where promotion and exposure of this message can value the members of the Brigade.b. In awarding scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, maintenance allowances or grants tenable at any school, university, college of higher education, or other institution of further (including professional and technical) education in Nepal or elsewhere, approved for the purpose by the Trustees. c. In providing or paying for items, services or facilities calculated to alleviate the suffering or assist the recovery of beneficiaries. d. In making grants of money or providing for or paying for items, services of facilities calculated to reduce the need, hardship or distress of beneficiaries.e. In providing recreational and leisure-time facilities for serving members of the BG with the object of improving their conditions of life.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,309,483, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of £277,000. Although the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £145,367 due to investment losses, the trustees confirm the going concern basis is appropriate as the charity can reduce grant expenditure if investment returns fall.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rock Tax & Accounting. Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLONEL HUGO STANFORD-TUCK
• MAJOR CHANDRA KUMAR LIMBU
• MAJOR JAMES DEVALL
• MAJOR KHADKA BAHADUR GURUNG
• MAJOR ROBERT MITCHELL
• MAJOR SUBARAJ SUNUWAR

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

Operates in: Brunei · Hampshire · Kent · Nepal · North Yorkshire · Powys · Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GURKHA WELFARE TRUST.

• THE GURKHA WELFARE TRUST income £26.6m
• THE GURKHA BRIGADE ASSOCIATION TRUST income £41k
• THE ROYAL GURKHA RIFLES TRUST income £93k
• THE GURKHA MUSEUM TRUST income £1.2m
• THE QUEEN'S OWN GURKHA LOGISTIC REGIMENT REGIMENTAL TRUST income £46k
• THE GURKHA CENTRE income £46k

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