HOPLITE FUND

Registered charity 1116376 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CENTRAL BANK REGIMENTAL ACCOUNTANT

The Hoplite Fund assists serving members, their families and veterans of the Regiment. The object is to provide the support, facilities, and activities to enhance the health, well being and welfare needs of our people. This includes facilitating respite breaks, enabling counselling services and routinely endorsing one-off grants to meet immediate needs in times of personal crisis.

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN BY THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE EFFICIENCY, WELFARE AND WELL-BEING OF REGIMENTAL PERSONNEL2. FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH REGIMENTAL PERSONNEL OR EX-PERSONNEL OR THEIR DEPENDENTS WHO ARE DEEMED BY THE TRUSTEES TO BE IN CHARITABLE NEED. ?REGIMENTAL PERSONNEL? MEANS MEMBERS OF ALL RANKS, OF ALL BRANCHES OF OUR SEA, LAND AND AIR FORCES, REGULAR AND RESERVE, AND MEMBERS OF ALL GRADES OF CIVIL SERVANTS AND LOCALLY EMPLOYED CIVILIANS ATTACHED TO THE 18 (UNITED KINGDOM SPECIAL FORCES) SIGNAL REGIMENT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL ARMED FORCES.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £1,362,360.18, driven by investment gains and income from the annual charity dinner night. The independent examiner confirms the fund is very healthy, with expenditure in keeping with income and assets, and notes no material issues requiring attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (80% 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: 26.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

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 MILITARY POLICE CENTRAL BENEVOLENT FUND.

• THE ROYAL MILITARY POLICE CENTRAL BENEVOLENT FUND income £278k
• THE ASSIST FUND income £1.1m
• UNIT INSTITUTE FUND ROYAL MARINES POOLE income £178k
• THE ARMY CENTRAL FUND income £2.9m
• PRINCESS OF WALES'S ROYAL REGIMENT (QUEEN'S AND ROYAL HAMPSHIRES) BENEVOLENT FUND income £377k
• SERGEANTS MESS ROYAL MARINES POOLE income £193k

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