THE GURKHA WELFARE TRUST

Registered charity 1103669 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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

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

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.

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 (3.8%) (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 1 other charity
• 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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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
• FOLKESTONE NEPALESE COMMUNITY (FNC) income £228k
• GAMEKEEPERS WELFARE TRUST income £166k
• THE HIMALAYAN TRUST UK CIO income £263k
• THE RIFLES BENEVOLENT TRUST income £1.0m
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k

Side by side with its peers

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