THE ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT TRUST (GRAND FLEET AND KINDRED FUNDS)

Registered charity 206243 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RNBT

The RNBT gives help, in cases of need, to those who are serving or have served as ratings in the Royal Navy or as other ranks in the Royal Marines, and their dependants - The RNBT Family. We give financial support to individuals and provide care for older people.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of £530k in 2024-25, a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit, driven by increased income and cost control. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general funds stood at £16.1m, which is within the stated reserves policy target range of £10m to £16.9m, indicating strong financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: RNBT CARE LIMITED Companies House 11820147

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Commodore Russell Best RN OBE — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Admiral Sir Tim Fraser KCB — President (source)
• Dr Alf Crossman — Vice President and Honorary Treasurer (source)
• Debbie Dollner — Chief Executive (source)
• Colonel Matt Stovin-Bradford Royal Marines — Admiralty Governor (source)
• Captain Ashley Spencer Royal Navy — Senior Serving Officer Trustee (source)
• Lieutenant Commander Tim Forer Royal Navy — Specialist Trustee (source)
• Nick Gartside CFA — Specialist Trustee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £2.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust — Registered, 2 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 09/08/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/08/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Russell Bestchair
• Adrian Boswell
• Anthony Michael Maher
• Captain Ashley Spencer RN
• David Baxter
• David McGinley
• Dr Alfred Victor Crossman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geoffrey Hounslea BEM
• Helen Wright
• Lieutenant Commander Tim Forer
• Matt Stovin-Bradford
• NICHOLAS JOHN GARTSIDE
• Natalie Ellis-Burt
• Pauline Shaw OBE
• Peter Hopkins

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Cyprus · France · Greece · Hong Kong · Ireland · Malta · New Zealand · South Africa · Spain · Thailand

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FOR OFFICERS.

• THE ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FOR OFFICERS income £1.7m
• THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY income £16.2m
• The Naval Children's Charity income £1.5m
• THE ROYAL MILITARY POLICE CENTRAL BENEVOLENT FUND income £278k
• ROYAL NAVY WINTER SPORTS ASSOCIATION income £700k
• THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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