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Registered charity · Kent

Royal Engineers Central Charitable Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Amateur Sport
Where
Kent
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A)TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS (HEREAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE ROYAL ENGINEERS);(B) TO PROMOTE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION, THE INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS, THE ROYAL ENGINEERS MUSEUM AND THE ROYAL ENGINEERS HEADQUARTER MESS AS LAID DOWN IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CHARTERS;(C)TO FOSTER AN ESPRIT DE CORPS IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS;(D)TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY NECESSITOUS PERSONS BEING MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS OR THE DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS BENEFICIAIRIES).

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.8y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure
5.3y
average years in governance
1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Amateur Sport 12General Charitable Purposes 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.4m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

83.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.0 in 2020

21 from 10 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1003032
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 14TH MARCH 1991 AND AMENDED 15 DECEMBER 1994. ORDER DATED 13TH SEPTEMBER 1994. as amended on 24 Jul 2025
Contact on the register
03001665212 · corps.treasurer@rhqre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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