ROYAL ARMY CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 259297 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as R A CHD ASSOCIATION

To promote the efficiency of the RACHD, in particular, but not exclusively, by:* Maintaining contact between past & present members of the department* Fostering espirit-de-corps, comradeship & welfare of the department.Also to relieve, either generally or individually, Chaplains or formaer Chaplains or the dependants of such persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ROYAL ARMY CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: (1) MAINTAINING CONTACT BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT; AND (2) FOSTERING ESPRIT-DE-CORPS, COMRADESHIP AND WELFARE OF THE DEPARTMENT. (B) TO RELIEVE, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, CHAPLAINS OR FORMER CHAPLAINS OR THE DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted and designated reserves of £336,931.24, with no stated reserves policy target. The charity reports no paid employees and no fundraising costs, relying instead on investment income and subscriptions to fund its activities and grants.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Michael David Parkerchair
• Colonel Ret'd Tim Purdon
• Grace Coulter
• Rev David John Barrett
• Rev Patrick Cable
• Rev Philip Ludwik Majcher
• Rev Richard Gordon Meikle
• Rev Stephen Alastair Blakey
• Rev Stephen John Herbert Dunwoody
• Rev Timothy Andrew Flowers

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

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

Income and spending

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