THE ROYAL ENGINEER YACHT CLUB

Registered charity 1178311 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotion of the efficiency of the armed forces of the Crown by:a. provision and support of sailing facilities, equipment and activities.b. increasing physical fitness through sailing.c. providing experience and developing leadershipd. encouraging esprit de corps through representation in sporting competitions.e. providing an association supporting serving and veteran Royal Engineers.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN BY:A. THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF SAILING FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE EFFICIENCY AND WELL-BEING OF SERVICE PERSONNELB. INCREASING PHYSICAL FITNESS OF MEMBERS OF THE SERVICES THROUGH SAILINGC. PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE PERSONNEL TO GAIN ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE AND DEVELOP THE MILITARY VIRTUES OF COURAGE, SELF-RELIANCE, MENTAL ROBUSTNESS, ENDURANCE AND LEADERSHIP RELEVANT TO THEIR JOBSD. ENCOURAGING ESPRIT DE CORPS AND FOSTERING HIGH MORALE THROUGH REPRESENTATION IN SPORTING COMPETITIONSE. PROVIDING AN ASSOCIATION THAT SUPPORTS THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS, ENABLES SERVING AND FORMER MEMBERS TO MIX TOGETHER, AND CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR MENTORING JUNIOR LEADERS BY OLDER, MORE EXPERIENCED MEMBERS.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The Royal Engineer Yacht Club reported total income of £108,497 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily driven by grants and subscriptions. The charity held unrestricted reserves of £252,215, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining six months' operating capital. The accounts were independently examined with no material matters reported, and the trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brigadier Gavin Hatcher CBE
• Brigadier Stephen Hodder
• Lieutenant Colonel Charles Battey
• Lieutenant Colonel Murray Smith
• Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Ives

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

Operates in: Belgium · Cyprus · Denmark · France · Germany · Gibraltar · Greece · Guernsey · Iceland · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Italy

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB TRUST.

• ROYAL SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB TRUST income £61k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS HEADQUARTER MESS income £269k
• ROYAL INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS income £1.9m
• ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION income £1.7m
• ROYAL NAVY RUGBY UNION income £647k
• THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY income £16.2m

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