ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION LIMITED

Registered charity 1122002 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION

The promotion of the efficiency of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and the Officers, Warrant Officers and Other Ranks thereof through making grants to regiments and individuals in support of regimental affairs.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £10,223,593 exceed the trustees' stated minimum free reserves requirement of £9,500,000. The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £509,835 for the year, driven by a significant increase in charitable expenditure, particularly a £1,155,000 provision for a capital grant to the Royal Artillery Museum. Despite this expenditure, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Reported reserves equal ~50.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 9.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Major General David Cullen CB, OBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brigadier Christopher Coton
• Colonel David Stuart Joyce · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colonel Jem Michael John Bersin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colonel Patrick James Farrell OBE ADC · trustee of 2 other charities
• Colonel Philip Haigh
• Colonel Richard Andrew Forster · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colonel Stuart Ian Hay · trustee of 1 other charity
• LT COL JAMES RONALD MURRAY GOWER
• Lt Col Simon John Rhodes Halliday TD · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK GRAHAM WILLIAMS
• Owen James Adams · trustee of 1 other charity
• RASM Keith Fisher · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rupert James Hendry Burchett · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 ROYAL ARTILLERY CHARITABLE FUND.

• ROYAL ARTILLERY CHARITABLE FUND income £1.8m
• ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUM income £825k
• THE ROYAL ARTILLERY GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £686k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS HEADQUARTER MESS income £269k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST income £730k
• THE ROYAL ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION income £277k

Side by side with its peers

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