THE ROYAL CALEDONIAN EDUCATION TRUST

Registered charity 310952 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Forces Children Scotland, ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM, ROYAL CALEDONIAN EDUCATION TRUST, ROYAL CALEDONIAN SCHOOLS TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC038722 (OSCR)

In support of the education and wellbeing of the offspring of current and former Scottish Armed Forces personnel.

Objects

EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES, NATIVES OF SCOTLAND, AND OF INDIGENT SCOTCH PARENTS RESIDENT IN LONDON, NOT ENTITLED TO PAROCHIAL RELIEF.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of Edinburgh, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of negative £461,249 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by total resources expended of £734,466 against total income of £290,505. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds are in deficit at £330,318, while the charity holds significant endowment funds of £3,479,857. The trustees maintain 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 Myers Clark. Discloses 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 15/02/2024, 15 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Greenwich Hospital — “Thanks to the core funding we received, we have been able to offer vital support, strengthen community connections, and improve mental healt…” (source page)
• Scottish Veterans Fund — “We’re grateful to be among the organisations receiving funding from the Scottish Veterans Fund 2026-27, which was recently announced by...” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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: 29.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Harvey Tilleychair
• Finlay James Allmond
• Fiona Barbour-Smith
• Fiona Jackson
• Isla Campbell Lupton
• Jessica Bryce
• Max Ogilvy Young
• Rachel Rylance
• Sarah Dickie · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COKETHORPE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED.

• COKETHORPE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £13.4m
• NEW LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £101k
• THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £59.1m
• CHELTONIAN ENDOWMENT TRUST income £99k
• THE RADFORD EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £247k
• HERRIES EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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