Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity

Registered charity 1134205 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RMA - The Royal Marines Charity, RMA-The Royal Marines Charity, ROYAL MARINES CHARITABLE TRUST FUND, THE ROYAL MARINES CHARITY · also registered in Scotland as SC048185 (OSCR)

The Royal Marines Charity is a charity for Serving and retired Royal Marines and their dependants. Its mission is three fold: Recovery Pathway - helping the wounded and seriously injured; Decompression and quality of life Pathway - helping those still serving; Through life Pathway - support after leaving the service.

Causes: Disability · 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 the charity reported a net operating deficit of £40,606 for the year, a significant improvement from the £382,949 deficit in the prior year. Total reserves increased to £17.1 million, with free reserves calculated at £11 million, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover 23 months of expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — RMA - The Royal Marines Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matt Jackson DSO — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Simon Wright QGM — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Danny Egan — Director of Health & Wellbeing (source)
• Caroline Casey — Director of Fundraising & Communications (source)
• Tom Wilson — Director of Development (source)
• Phil Gilby MBE — Membership Operations Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~27.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LYNN ROSANNE FORDHAMchair
• Andrew Mark Edward ROBINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ann Catherine Cormack
• Carl Dixon
• Emma Claire Gray
• Ian David Cohen
• James Alexander Dennis
• Mark Edward Fitzgerald
• Nicholas Mark Banks
• Richard James Swarbrick
• Rory Copinger-Symes
• Ryan Nast
• SIMON BEET
• Sara Reed
• Thomas Michael Tripp
• Timothy Daniel Jukes · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Timothy Daniel Jukes — trustee here and at GLOBE AND LAUREL MAGAZINE

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY.

• THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY income £13.7m
• The Naval Children's Charity income £1.5m
• UNIT INSTITUTE FUND ROYAL MARINES POOLE income £178k
• THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT CHARITY income £403k
• THE RAMC CHARITY income £600k
• THE ROYAL MILITARY POLICE CENTRAL BENEVOLENT FUND income £278k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.