THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION CHARITY

Registered charity 1200873 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Military charity supporting the Household Division.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN AND IN PARTICULAR THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION.(2) TO COMMEMORATE AND REMEMBER THOSE MEMBERS, OR FORMER MEMBERS, OF THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES OR SUFFERED INJURY, OR PUT THEMSELVES AT RISK OF LOSS OF LIFE OR INJURY, IN SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC.(3) TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS WHO ARE SERVING OR WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION OR THE DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.(4) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION, IN THE HISTORY DEEDS TRADITIONS AND ROLE OF THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION.

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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Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,979,868, an increase from the previous year's £5,807,345. The charity reported a net income surplus of £809,907 for the group, driven by investment gains, while total expenses were £1,952,921. The trustees confirmed 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 Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: GUARDS MUSEUM ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 06461708 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Household Division Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~36.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (48% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 33.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DESMOND SHANE SPENCER CHICHESTER · trustee of 3 other charities
• James Andrew Campbell Campbell-Johnston
• James Benedict Codrington · trustee of 3 other charities
• Lieutenant Colonel Charles Michael James Foinette · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lieutenant Colonel Edward James Paintin
• Major General Mark Simon Peter Berry · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ralph Griffin

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHARTERHOUSE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE CHARTERHOUSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
• THE HOMESTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £279k
• CRITICAL SUPPORT income £592k
• THE HELPING FOUNDATION income £23.9m
• HEIRS income £34k
• Caister Community Support income £48k

Side by side with its peers

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