ROYAL ENGINEERS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST

Registered charity 1068709 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RE CPD TEAM, REVETT, ROYAL ENGINEERS CPD TEAM

To promote the efficiency of the Army and particularly the military efficiency of the Royal Engineers by promoting and supporting the involvement of its personnel in nationally recognised vocational education and training schemes

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMY AND IN PARTICULAR THE ROYAL ENGINEERS BY ADVANCING THE EDUCATION AND COMPETENCY OF ITS EPRSONNEL BOTH REGULAR AND RESERVE, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH INVOLVEMENT IN NATIONALLY RECOGNISED VOCATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING SCHEMES.

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: Education/training · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £7,660,008, with free reserves at £7,658,809, which the Trustees assess are sufficient to protect qualifications for 10-15 years. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £309,610 for the year, driven by significant investment gains of £474,179 which offset a net expenditure on charitable activities of £420,459.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~218.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (65% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brigadier Guy Boxall MBE
• Col Daniel Hall VR MInstRE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Col Guy Cheesman ADC RE
• Craig Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Graham Jack Robinson
• Lieutenant Colonel Rob Porter
• Lt Col David White RE
• Richard Rees
• Simon Cook

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL ENGINEERS HEADQUARTER MESS.

• ROYAL ENGINEERS HEADQUARTER MESS income £269k
• ENGINEERS AGAINST POVERTY income £2.0m
• ENGINEERING SERVICES TRAINING TRUST LIMITED income £117k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS CENTRAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• THE REME CHARITY income £3.1m
• ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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