THE GURKHA WELFARE TRUST

Registered charity 1103669 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5620127 · Wikipedia

The Gurkha Welfare Trust is the leading Gurkha charity. We provide financial, medical and development aid to Gurkha veterans, their families and communities.

Objects

Objects 4. The Objects are specifically restricted to the following: (1) to relieve either generally or individually Gurkhas and/or their Dependants wherever resident and/or any other persons from time to time residing in Gurkha Community Areas who are, in either case, in conditions of need, hardship or distress; (2) to advance the education of Gurkhas and/or their Dependants wherever resident and/or any other persons from time to time residing in Gurkha Community Areas; (3) to make provision for the medical diagnosis and treatment of Gurkhas and/or their Dependants wherever resident and/or any other persons from time to time residing in Gurkha Community Areas who, in either case, are in need of such diagnosis or treatment and for the prevention of any disease or adverse conditions which may affect any such person; and (4) such other charitable purposes which are in the opinion of the Trustee-Directors connected directly or indirectly with the foregoing purposes as the Trustee-Directors from time to time think fit. Nothing in the Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £49,304,000 are significantly higher than the Trustees' stated policy target of 18 months of routine expenditure (approximately £36,444,000). The charity reports a strong financial position with total funds of £70,542,000, supported by a large investment portfolio and robust fundraising income, despite a slight decrease in total income compared to the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Gurkha Welfare Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~23.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Major General Gerald Mark Strickland DSO MBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ann Levin
• Brigadier Jody Davies MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colonel David John Robinson
• Dr Alison Jane Everest · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hemchandra Rai MBE BEM
• John Geoffrey Rupert David
• Patrick Mark Allan Grant
• Ranjani Kearsley
• Stephen Cooper

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

Operates in: India · Nepal · Scotland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRIGADE OF GURKHAS EDUCATION AND WELFARE FUND.

• THE BRIGADE OF GURKHAS EDUCATION AND WELFARE FUND income £479k
• THE GURKHA BRIGADE ASSOCIATION TRUST income £41k
• THE ROYAL GURKHA RIFLES TRUST income £93k
• THE GURKHA MUSEUM TRUST income £1.2m
• ZULEKHA ZINGA WELFARE TRUST income £57k
• THE GURKHA CENTRE income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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