THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT BENEVOLENT CHARITY

Registered charity 1085050 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · repeated filing default (register status)

The charity is responsible for the delivery of benevolence to members of the the Royal Anglian Regiment, past and present, and its fore-bearer Regiments veterans for the relief of persons who are in 'need', 'hardship' or 'distress', and the promotion of the efficiency of the Regiment in such charitable ways as the Trustees may decide.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO (A) ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS; AND (B) ARE SERVING OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT OR FORMER REGIMENTS OR THE DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS AND THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICENCY OF THE REGIMENT IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE.

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: West Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2022 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is not a going concern because it is being wound up following the transfer of all assets and liabilities to a new Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) as of 1 January 2023. The filing reports unrestricted reserves of £6,139,354, which the Trustees confirm comfortably exceeds the level required to meet future benevolent and regimental efficiency objectives.

Automated summary of the FY2022 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ensors Accountants LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2021) → not a going concern (FY2022).

Comparing this charity’s FY2021 and FY2022 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 18/12/2024, 414 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

3 further annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~151.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/05/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/05/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mr David John Tillchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Captain Richard William Howe Colgan
• John Wright · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Duncan Weston
• Maj Gen Dominic Stead James Biddick MBE MC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Major Peter David Connolly
• Richard Bredin

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 THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT CHARITY.

• THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT CHARITY income £556k
• THE ROYAL YORKSHIRE REGIMENT BENEVOLENT TRUST income £184k
• THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT CHARITY income £495k
• THE ROYAL YORKSHIRE REGIMENT CHARITABLE TRUST income £235k
• Army Benevolent Fund income £13.7m
• PRINCESS OF WALES'S ROYAL REGIMENT (QUEEN'S AND ROYAL HAMPSHIRES) BENEVOLENT FUND income £377k

Side by side with its peers

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