THE ROYAL WELSH REGIMENTAL WELFARE AND BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1166089 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the efficiency of the armed forces of the crown in general and in particular the efficiency of the Royal Welsh or any component or predecessor regiment or unit by any charitable means.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ROYAL WELSH OR ANY COMPONENT OR PREDECESSOR REGIMENT OR UNIT BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY:(A) FOSTERING ESPRIT DE CORPS AND COMRADESHIP AND SUPPORTING CADET UNITS AFFILIATED TO THE ROYAL WELSH; (B) ASSISTING MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL WELSH, OR ANY COMPONENT OR PREDECESSOR REGIMENT OR UNIT, OR ANY PERSONNEL ATTACHED TO THOSE REGIMENTS, WITH THEIR TRANSITION TO CIVILIAN LIFE, IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROVIDING EDUCATION TO AID WITH RE-SETTLEMENT AND ASSISTING THEM TO FIND EMPLOYMENT; (C) FOSTERING AND PRESERVING THE HISTORY, HERITAGE, TRADITIONS, AND MILITARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE ROYAL WELSH AND ANY COMPONENT OR PREDECESSOR REGIMENT OR UNIT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY SUPPORTING A MUSEUM OR MUSEUMS, ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS; AND(D) COMMEMORATING AND REMEMBERING THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL WELSH, OR ANY COMPONENT OR PREDECESSOR REGIMENT OR UNIT, WHO HAVE DIED WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE AND TO ENCOURAGE PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF THE SACRIFICE MADE BY SUCH PERSONS; AND IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT LIMITATION TO PROVIDE MEMORIALS TO COMMEMORATE THE FALLEN OR VICTORIES, AND MAINTAIN REGIMENTAL CHAPELS OR CHURCHES.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL WELSH, OR ANY COMPONENT OR PREDECESSOR REGIMENT OR UNIT;(3) TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP, DISTRESS OR NEED AMONG MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL WELSH, OR ANY COMPONENT OR PREDECESSOR REGIMENT OR UNIT, MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES AND OTHER DEPENDENTS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO FAMILIES OR OTHER DEPENDENTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES ON ACTIVE SERVICE;(4) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN WOUNDED OR INJURED, WHETHER ON ACTIVE SERVICE OR OTHERWISE, WHILST SERVING IN THE ROYAL WELSH, OR ANY COMPONENT OR PREDECESSOR REGIMENT OR UNIT, AT THE CHARITY TRUSTEES? DISCRETION; AND(5) SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES RELATING TO THE ROYAL WELSH OR ANY COMPONENT OR PREDECESSOR REGIMENT OR UNIT AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a total surplus of £412,425 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by significant investment gains of £216,659. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £193,237, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining six months' expenditure. The charity has no employees, with administration handled by MOD staff, and holds substantial investment assets totaling over £3.7 million.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Walter Hunter & Co Limited. 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.

• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Royal Welsh (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brigadier Nigel Crewe-Read
• Captain Retd James Edward Ellis Barham
• Captain Retd Robin John Edgcumbe Minter-Kemp
• Colonel Nicholas John Lock OBE
• DAVID HITCHCOCK
• Lt Col Mark David Adams
• Lt Col Oliver Grant William Beard
• MIKE ADLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT DICKINSON
• Simon Rhys Layton Prichard

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL WELSH REGIMENTAL MUSEUM TRUST.

• THE ROYAL WELSH REGIMENTAL MUSEUM TRUST income £90k
• PRINCESS OF WALES'S ROYAL REGIMENT (QUEEN'S AND ROYAL HAMPSHIRES) BENEVOLENT FUND income £377k
• THE ROYAL HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT WELFARE FUND income £61k
• WELSH GUARDS CHARITY income £580k
• ROYAL DOCKS WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £45k
• ROYAL ARTILLERY CHARITABLE FUND income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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