ROYAL BRITISH LEGION POPPY FACTORY

Registered charity 225348 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL BRITISH LEGION POPPY FACTORY LIMITED

The creation of paid, meaningful employment opportunities for ex-Service people, primarily disabled, together with their disabled dependants and widows/widowers.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF HEALTH CONDITIONS OR OTHER BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO GAIN MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £2.35m are below the stated policy target of £1 million, although the Board considers this sufficient to support operations. The charity reported a net deficit for the year, driven by planned investments in services and high property refurbishment costs, but maintains a strong asset base including £23.985m in investment property.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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)

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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00204405

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Poppy Factory (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• TAYLOR-JENKINS, Rachael Louise — director, appointed 22/02/2024on trustee list
• HODGSON, Martin Richard — director, appointed 15/08/2023on trustee list
• WORRELL, Larry Brian — director, appointed 26/04/2023on trustee list
• HODGETTS, Timothy John, Doctor — director, appointed 28/04/2021not on trustee list
• COSTELLO, Linda Janette — director, appointed 27/11/2020on trustee list
• HUBBARD, Matthew Edward Jack — director, appointed 31/01/2020on trustee list
• KETT, Alistair James — director, appointed 23/11/2018on trustee list
• WISHART, Andrew Ian Fergusson — director, appointed 13/07/2018on trustee list
• KALIDINDI, Sridevi, Dr — director, appointed 01/04/2018on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Simon Anthony — director, appointed 24/11/2017on trustee list
• DARE, Clifford Roderick Stanton — director, appointed 24/11/2017not on trustee list
• SHORT, John Jeffrey — secretary, appointed 01/10/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (42% 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: 23.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair James Kett
• Andrew Ian Fergusson Wishart
• CLIFFORD RODERICK STANTON DARE MBE
• Dr Sridevi Kalidindi
• Larry Brian Worrell
• Linda Janette Costello
• Martin Richard Hodgson
• Matthew Edward Jack Hubbard
• Professor Timothy John Hodgetts CB CBE DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachael Louise Taylor-Jenkins
• Simon Anthony Taylor

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION.

• THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION income £168.5m
• ROYAL BRITISH VETERANS ENTERPRISE LTD. income £24.4m
• LLOYD'S PATRIOTIC FUND income £458k
• Army Benevolent Fund income £13.7m
• PRINCESS OF WALES'S ROYAL REGIMENT (QUEEN'S AND ROYAL HAMPSHIRES) BENEVOLENT FUND income £377k
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND income £27.7m

Side by side with its peers

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