ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£386k

Accounts grants total

£353k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Applications must be submitted online via The Sapper Charity website. Applications are reviewed by Group HQs, then the Finance Committee.
What they don’t fund: Grants are to be used for the collective welfare of a Branch or Unit and may not be expended on individuals or their families as a means of charity of supplementing their pay. UBSG are for discrete projects and will not be granted for any long-term commitment. Grants are also not to be used for running or maintenance costs, fees/licenses, travel, subsistence, accommodation, equipment hire etc.

Summarised from www.reahq.org.uk · www.reahq.org.uk/unit-branch-grants/ · www.reahq.org.uk/sports-at-grants/ on 13/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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

Education/training (2 grantees)
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Barnet (1 grantee)
Kent (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	McCabe Fund	—	£131k
new	Sapper Charity Children’s Fund (Kitchener)	—	£78k
new	Army Benevolent Fund	—	£70k
new	SSAFA Families Help	—	£32k
new	THE GABRIEL FUND	—	£25k
not listed	Army Benevolent Fund The Soldiers Charity	£66k	—
not listed	SSAFA	£30k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
McCabe Fund	FY2025	£131k	Grants
Sapper Charity Children’s Fund (Kitchener)	FY2025	£78k	Grants
Army Benevolent Fund	FY2025	£70k	Grants
Royal Engineers Museum	FY2025	£50k	Grants
SSAFA Families Help	FY2025	£32k	Grants
Gabriel Fund	FY2025	£25k	Career retraining case
Army Benevolent Fund The Soldiers Charity	FY2024	£66k	Benevolence grants
Royal Engineers Museum	FY2024	£50k	Related party grant
SSAFA	FY2024	£30k	Benevolence grants
Army Benevolent Fund The Soldiers Charity	FY2023	£66k	Benevolence grants
SSAFA	FY2023	£30k	Benevolence grants
Army Benevolent Fund The Soldiers Charity	FY2022	£60k	Grant to ABF The Soldiers' Charity
SSAFA	FY2022	£34k	Grant to SSAFA
SSAFA Forces Help	FY2021	£230k	Grant usually made in-year to SSAFA (paid in Q1 2022)
Army Benevolent Fund The Soldiers Charity	FY2021	£60k	Grant usually made in-year to ABF for the work they do on behalf of the wider Services' benevolence systems (paid in Q1 2022)

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 386399 vs reference 353073 (9.4% 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.