GRENADIER GUARDS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 287265 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of grants to former Grenadiers and their dependants

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Latest income

£212k

Latest spending

£275k

Registered

1983

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £2,818,996, which the trustees believe is sufficient and equates to roughly 10 years of total expenditure without relying on external funding. The charity reported a net surplus of £172,690 for the year, with investment income decreasing slightly but overall reserves increasing from the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: The charity received funding from The Grenadier Guards Charity (Registered charity number 1062257) in the form of an annual grant in the sum of £19,000 (2024: £30,000).

“The charity received funding from The Grenadier Guards Charity (Registered charity number 1062257) in the form of an annual grant in the sum of £19,000 (2024: £30,000). One Trustee made a donation of £50 (2024: £Nil) to the charity in the period. This donation was made without conditions attatched.” — page 19

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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Trustees · trustee networks

BRIGADIER DAVID MADDAN · trustee of 1 other charity
Charles Albury Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity
General Sir Charles Walker KCB, DSO · trustee of 1 other charity
Lieutenant General Sir George Pemberton Ross Norton KCVO CBE · trustee of 2 other charities
Major General James Maurice Hannan Bowder OBE · trustee of 2 other charities
The Earl of Derby · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£212k	£275k
31/12/2024	£252k	£281k
31/12/2023	£272k	£322k
31/12/2022	£234k	£295k
31/12/2021	£134k	£177k

Common questions

Is GRENADIER GUARDS ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £2,818,996, which the trustees believe is sufficient and equates to roughly 10 years of total expenditure without relying on external funding. The charity reported a net surplus of £172,690 for the year, with investment income decreasing slightly but overall reserves increasing from the previous year. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds GRENADIER GUARDS ASSOCIATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name GRENADIER GUARDS ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include THE SALISBURY POOL CHARITY COMPRISING THE FIRST MOIETY ESTABLISHED BY CLAUSE 2 OF THE DEED OF DECLARATION DATED 23RD MARCH 1976.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE SALISBURY POOL CHARITY COMPRISING THE FIRST MOIETY ESTABLISHED BY CLAUSE 2 OF THE DEED OF DECLARATION DATED 23RD MARCH 1976	FY2023	£5k	Social welfare
THE SALISBURY POOL CHARITY COMPRISING THE FIRST MOIETY ESTABLISHED BY CLAUSE 2 OF THE DEED OF DECLARATION DATED 23RD MARCH 1976	FY2022	£1k	Social welfare
THE SALISBURY POOL CHARITY COMPRISING THE FIRST MOIETY ESTABLISHED BY CLAUSE 2 OF THE DEED OF DECLARATION DATED 23RD MARCH 1976	FY2024	£100	Social welfare

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	13/03/2006	£5k	Remembrance visit
The National Lottery Community Fund	09/12/2005	£5k	350th Anniversary
The National Lottery Community Fund	26/11/2004	£5k	Remembrance Service