THE GRENADIER GUARDS CHARITY

Registered charity 1062257 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 2ND BATTALION CHARITY, 3RD BATTALION CHARITY, GRENADIER GUARDS REGIMENTAL CHARITY, GRENADIER GUARDS RELIEF IN NEED CHARITY, THE COLONEL'S FUND GRENADIER GUARDS, THE GRENADIER GUARDS REGIMENTAL & BATTALION RELIEF CHARITY

Provision of funds to aid both serving and non serving soldiers and their dependents

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(1) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS, BY FOSTERING ESPRIT DECORPS AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIMEDETERMINE.(2) TO COMMEMORATE AND REMEMBER THOSE MEMBERS, OR FORMER MEMBERS, OF THEGRENADIER GUARDS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES OR SUFFERED INJURY, OR PUTTHEMSELVES AT RISK OF LOSS OF LIFE OR INJURY, IN SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC.(3) TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS WHO ARE SERVING OR WHOHAVE SERVED IN THE GRENADIER GUARDS OR THE DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS WHOARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.(4) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE GRENADIERGUARDS, IN THE HISTORY DEEDS TRADITIONS AND ROLE OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £56,986 for the year, though total funds increased by £784,039 due to significant gains on the revaluation of investments. The trustees maintain unrestricted funds of £6,641,977, which exceeds their stated policy target of reserving up to one year's incoming resources. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WP Audit Services LLP. Discloses 6 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Colonel's Fund Grenadier Guards (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~101.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 47.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIGADIER DAVID MADDAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Albury Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity
• General Sir Charles Walker KCB, DSO · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lieutenant General Sir George Pemberton Ross Norton KCVO CBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Major General James Maurice Hannan Bowder OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Earl of Derby · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GRENADIER GUARDS ASSOCIATION.

• GRENADIER GUARDS ASSOCIATION income £212k
• GUARDS' CHAPEL TRUST income £398k
• THE FORT TRUST income £29k
• THE REGIMENTAL CHARITY OF THE ROYAL DRAGOON GUARDS income £84k
• THE GARY LANDESBERG CHARITABLE TRUST income £74k
• LIMOGES CHARITABLE TRUST income £69k

Side by side with its peers

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