THE MERCIAN REGIMENTAL CHARITY

Registered charity 1177059 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE AIMS OF THE CHARITY IS TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REGIMENT, THE PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE MEMORIALS AND CHAPELS OF THE REGIMENT AND FORMER REGIMENTS.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REGIMENT IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE;2) THE PRESERVATION OF THE MEMORIALS AND CHAPELS OF THE REGIMENT AND THE FORMER REGIMENTS, INCLUDING THE PRESERVATION IN PERPETUITY OF THE CRICH MEMORIAL AND ITS GROUNDS;3) TO SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE REGIMENT OR THE FORMER REGIMENTS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lichfield, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £2,611,326, while the charity maintains a stated policy that capital assets (minus the Bond Fund) shall not fall below £1.75m. The trustees report a reasonable expectation of 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 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LT GEN SIR IAN CAVE KCBchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIG PHILIP KIMBER OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brig Charles Ginn CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brig Simon Banton OBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• COL ADRIAN WALTON MBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• LT COL ANDREW LAWSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• LT COL Mark Jackson OBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• LT COL NEIL PARKINSON OBE
• MAJ MARK BANKS · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK ELLIOTT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Mackintosh · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MERCIAN REGIMENT BENEVOLENT CHARITY.

• THE MERCIAN REGIMENT BENEVOLENT CHARITY income £136k
• THE RICHARD MEINS CHARITABLE TRUST income £180k
• THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT CHARITY income £495k
• MERRIMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £251k
• R M SALES CHARITABLE TRUST income £0
• M O CHARITABLE TRUST income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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