RAF Benson Junior Ranks Welfare Fund

Registered charity 1129706 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAF BENSON SIF, SERVICE INSTITUTE FUND RAF BENSON

Service Funds are estabilished for the benefit of Service personnel to promote efficiency which underpins esprit de corps and team working.

Objects

TTHE CHARITY'S OBJECT (THE OBJECT) IS THE PROMOTION OF MILITARY EFFICIENCY BY THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF SOCIAL, SPORTING AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE EFFICIENCY AND WELL-BEING OF SERVICEMEN AND SERVICEWOMEN.

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.

Causes: Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £238,435 at the year end, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet liabilities. The charity aims to hold reserves to cover anticipated costs for at least three months, and the current reserves provide an equivalent of 43.9 months of expense cover. The charity is confirmed to be a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Tierney MA RAF · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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