ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 258322 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REA, The Sapper Charity · also registered in Scotland as SC041832 (OSCR)

To provide financial and other assistance to serving and former members of the Corps, their spouses, widows, widowers and dependants who are in need through poverty. To make grants, within Association Guidelines, to the Army Benevolent Fund and to other charities that further the objectives of the Association.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £591,580, driven by significant investment gains, resulting in closing unrestricted reserves of £11,241,549. The trustees confirm that the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and maintains diversified investments and property assets to support its benevolence and esprit de corps objectives.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Engineers Association (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~67.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maj Gen A S Dickinson CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Col retd Jonathan Mark Ruddy
• Col Claire James RE
• Colin Basnett CBE
• Colonel Guy Cheesman ADC
• Craig Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeffrey Jupp KC
• Lord Lancaster Mark Lancaster TD PC
• Lt Col Retd. Martin James Heffer TD RE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Matt Bazeley OBE
• Rowan Adams

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• MAJOR GENERAL ALASTAIR DICKINSON CBE — trustee here and at ROYAL ENGINEERS CENTRAL CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 RIFLES BENEVOLENT TRUST.

• THE RIFLES BENEVOLENT TRUST income £1.0m
• THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT CHARITY income £403k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST income £730k
• THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.6m
• ICE BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.7m
• ROYAL ENGINEERS HEADQUARTER MESS income £269k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.