THE RIFLES AND LIGHT INFANTRY ASSOCIATION, SOMERSET

Registered charity 800595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIRA (SOM), THE LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION (SOMERSET DIVISION)

The purpose is to promote the efficiency of The Rifles by maintaining contact between past and present members, including those from former regiments. The Association fosters esprit de corps, comradeship and welfare. Control is exercised through Association Branches within the County of Somerset and the City and County of Bristol.

Objects

A. TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE RIFLES (THE REGIMENT) BY: (1)MAINTAINING CONTACT BETWEEN FORMER MEMBERS OF THE FORMER THE LIGHT INFANTRY, THE FORMER THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY AND THE FORMER THE SOMERSET & CORNWALL LIGHT INFANTRY (THE FORMER REGIMENTS) AND FORMER AND SERVING MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT, FOSTERING MUTUAL FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THEM AND PROVIDING FOR SOCIAL GATHERINGS FOR THEM; AND 2)FOSTERING ESPRIT DE CORPS, COMRADESHIP AND THE WELFARE OF THE REGIMENT AND PRESERVING ITS TRADITIONS AND THOSE OF THE FORMER REGIMENTS. B. TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE FORMER REGIMENTS AND FORMER OR SERVING MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT WHO HAVE HAD REGULAR OR EMBODIED TERRITORIAL ARMY SERVICE, AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, WHO ARE IN 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Amateur Sport · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brigadier Neville Holmes MBEchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Colonel Timothy Weeks OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL JOHN RICHARD MOTUM · trustee of 4 other charities
• Major Kevin Michael Tuhey QVRM TD VR
• Major Roger Ernest Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Stuart William Thompson
• Robert James Guest TD

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Operates in: Bristol City · Somerset

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