The Royal Signals Charity

Registered charity 284923 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS BENEVOLENT FUND, THE ROYAL SIGNALS ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND

To provide grants for deserving welfare cases that are within the objects of the Charity.To fund the activities of the serving, reserves and retired members of Royal Corps of Signals, that attract no or only partial funding from the Ministry of Defence, in order to foster effectiveness, morale, teamwork, fitness, professional development, comradeship and esprit de corps.

Objects

THE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY AND MORALE OF THE ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS; THE RELIEF OF POVERTY INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) FINANCIAL RELIEF IN CASES OF NEED BY THE GRANT LOAN OR EXPENDITURE OF SUMS OF MONEY TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF (I) SIGNALMEN, THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS AND (II) THE FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS OF DECEASED SIGNALMEN; THE PAYMENT OF DONATIONS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS CONCERNED WITH THE EMPLOYMENT OR WELFARE OF SIGNALMEN AND THEIR DEPENDANTS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit for the year of £282K, driven by investment losses of £294K, resulting in a decrease in total fund balances to £11.47M. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £3.896M are sufficient to meet short-term risks and that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore (South) LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £70,000 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Signals Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~25.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE ROYAL SIGNALS TRUSTEE LIMITED

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 SIGNALS MUSEUM.

• THE ROYAL SIGNALS MUSEUM income £276k
• 'SIGNALS' ESSEX MEDIA CENTRE LTD income £142k
• THE ROYAL ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION income £277k
• THE ROYAL YORKSHIRE REGIMENT CHARITABLE TRUST income £235k
• THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT CHARITY income £556k
• THE LIGHT DRAGOONS REGIMENTAL CHARITY income £201k

Side by side with its peers

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