THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION — grant history

Registered charity 219279 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£168.5m
Grants listed (FY2025)
12
Listed grants total
£8.1m
Accounts grants total
£6.7m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.britishlegion.org.uk · www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/fundraise-for-us · www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/fundraise-for-us/poppy-appeal on 13/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (5 grantees)
  • Education/training (5 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (5 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
  • Disability (3 grantees)
  • Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency (3 grantees)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (2 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
  • Recreation (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Scotland (6 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
  • Throughout England And Wales (4 grantees)
  • Canada (3 grantees)
  • Throughout England (2 grantees)
  • New Zealand (2 grantees)
  • Cyprus (2 grantees)
  • Kenya (2 grantees)
  • Belgium (2 grantees)
  • Bermuda (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
National Memorial ArboretumFY2025£2.7mGrants awarded by the Charity
Army Families FederationFY2025£2.6mGrants awarded by the Charity
Combat StressFY2025£1.1mGrants awarded by the Charity
ShelterFY2025£550kGrants awarded by the Charity
Brooke House Health and WellbeingFY2025£339kGrants awarded by the Charity
King’s College LondonFY2025£335kGrants awarded by the Charity
Homeless Vets ShelterFY2025£329kGrants awarded by the Charity
6 other charities and voluntary organisationsFY2025£152kGrants awarded by Poppyscotland
Veterans’ Oak TreeStoryFY2025£30kGrants awarded by the Charity
Citizens Advice ScotlandFY2025£29kGrants awarded by Poppyscotland
OthersFY2025£21kGrants awarded by the Charity
Fighting With PrideFY2025£10kGrants awarded by the Charity
National Memorial ArboretumFY2023£2.5mRemembrance
Citizens Advice ScotlandFY2023£2.1mWelfare services
The Matthew ProjectFY2023£2.1mWelfare services
PoppyscotlandFY2023£526kWelfare services
Citizens Advice ScotlandFY2023£487kWelfare services
NHS HighlandFY2023£325kWelfare services
NHS HighlandFY2023£325kWelfare services
6 other charities and voluntary organisationsFY2023£270kWelfare services
6 other charities and voluntary organisationsFY2023£270kWelfare services
X-ForcesFY2023£191kWelfare services
Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services LeagueFY2023£55kWelfare services
RFEA The Forces Employment CharityFY2023£20kWelfare services
The Matthew ProjectFY2023£6kWelfare services
Never Such InnocenceFY2023£4kWelfare services
Combat StressFY2022£2.3mGrants for Welfare Services and Remembrance
RFEA The Forces Employment CharityFY2022£2.1mGrants for Welfare Services and Remembrance
Citizens Advice ScotlandFY2022£393kGrants awarded by Poppyscotland
Voices of Armed Forces ChildrenFY2022£300kGrants for Welfare Services and Remembrance
Grants to 5 other charities and voluntary organisationsFY2022£294kGrants awarded by Poppyscotland
NHS HighlandFY2022£164kGrants awarded by Poppyscotland
Grants to 7 other charities and voluntary organisationsFY2022£103kGrants for Welfare Services and Remembrance
ShelterFY2022£14kGrants for Welfare Services and Remembrance
Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services LeagueFY2022£14kGrants for Welfare Services and Remembrance
The Matthew ProjectFY2022£11kGrants for Welfare Services and Remembrance
Army Families FederationFY2022£8Grants for Welfare Services and Remembrance
X-ForcesFY2022£2Grants for Welfare Services and Remembrance

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 8130000 vs reference 6700000 (21.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.