CORPS OF ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS MUSEUM

Registered charity 272740 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as R E M E MUSEUM OF TECHNOLOGY

To preserve the heritage of the Corps of REME and to make it available for the education of the public and the Armed Services. To assist the public in appropriate military historical research.

Objects

UPHOLDING THE TRADITIONS OF THE CORPS AND PERPETUATING ITS DEEDS.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £22,673 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £2,070,045 to £2,047,372. The trustees note that the Museum is dependent on MOD support for staff wages and building infrastructure, and that the Museum Fund is underwritten by The REME Charity. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting 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 Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 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
• 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 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 (78% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brigadier Clare Phillips CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander Shand CEng
• Colonel Bob Fram · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harriet Burns
• James Alexander Foster · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lt Col Abigail Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Major Paul Charles Dennis Hembery · trustee of 1 other charity
• Megan Ashton RN
• Paul Tumim
• Trevor Hirst MSc CEng

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

Operates in: Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REME CHARITY.

• THE REME CHARITY income £3.1m
• WARRANT OFFICERS' & SERGEANTS' MESS SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL ENGINEERS income £171k
• KING'S OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT MUSEUM FUND income £218k
• ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUM income £748k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION income £1.7m
• THE STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT MUSEUM TRUST income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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