THE ROYAL ENGINEERS MUSEUM CIO

Registered charity 1211021 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL ENGINEERS MUSEUM

We collect, conserve and communicate the history of the Royal Engineers, exploring 300 years of history at the home of military ingenuity in Medway, Kent. The story is told to our wide audience through permanent galleries, exhibitions, STEM and history learning and community programming. Working with the RE family we develop the Collection to tell a continuing story of service and courage.

Objects

TO COLLECT, PRESERVE AND PRESENT ACCESSIBLY THE MILITARY AND CIVIL WORK, DEEDS AND HISTORY OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS AND TO EDUCATE AND PROMOTE SCHOLARSHIP THEREIN FOR MEMBERS OF THE CORPS, THE WIDER ARMED FORCES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND, THEREBY, TO CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO THE PROFICIENCY, REPUTATION AND EFFICIENCY OF THE CORPS, THE RECRUITMENT AND INSPIRATION OF ITS MEMBERS AND THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free/unrestricted reserves were negative at -£59,689, a decrease from the previous year's -£51,766, due to large amounts held in designated funds and fixed assets. Total net assets decreased by £85,365 to £1,514,595, despite investment gains of £99,914. The trustees and auditors confirm that the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. Discloses 5 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 handling
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% 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: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maj Gen David William Southall CBEchair
• Col Donald Leslie Deacon Bigger
• Col Guy Stuart Cheesman ADC
• Cora Constantin
• Dr Gabriella Poppy Valentine Howell
• Fraser Norwood
• Helen Marie Gower
• Paul James Brooks
• ROBIN COLE-HAMILTON
• Sir George Jessel DL · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.

• INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS income £622k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS HEADQUARTER MESS income £269k
• CORPS OF ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS MUSEUM income £567k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION income £1.7m
• PRICKWILLOW ENGINE MUSEUM CIO income £25k
• THE BRITISH ENGINEERIUM TRUST LIMITED income £248k

Side by side with its peers

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