Registered charity · Belfast
The Royal Irish Regiment Charity
- 12 trustees
- Income £495k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Colin WeirChair · since 2018
- Andrew HartTrustee · since 2020
- Austin BairdTrustee · since 2019
- Hugh CrosseyTrustee · since 2022
- Matthew LewisTrustee · since 2024
- MC MeehanTrustee · since 2007
- NP PerryTrustee · since 2014
- Rev Andrew TottenTrustee · since 2019
- Richard SheridanTrustee · since 2025
- Robert SmallTrustee · since 2025
- Thomas ForrestTrustee · since 2025
- Wayne NickelsTrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Amateur Sport and 1 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.army.mod.uk/royalirish (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1996
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£495k£1.4m
- 2024£279k£1.1m
- 2023£649k£981k
Earlier years
- 2022£128k£84k
- 2021£100k£70k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1. THE REGIMENTAL BRANCH - FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REGIMENT AS THE MANAGING TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT 2. THE CHAPELS BRANCH - THE PRESERVATION,UPKEEP, REPAIR AND DECORATION OF THE REGIMENTAL MEMORIALS AND CHAPELS; THE MAINTENANCE OF THE REGIMENTAL COLOURS LAID UP IN THE SAID CHAPELS OR ELSEWHERE; PROVISION FOR THE CONDUCT OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN THE SAID CHAPELS;THE REPAIR, MAINTENANCE,PRESERVATION, IMPROVEMENT,DECORATION AND RESTORATION OF THE REGIMENTAL WAR MEMORIALS OF THE REGIMENT AND FORMER REGIMENTS 3. THE RELIEF BRANCH - TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS WHO ARE PAST OR PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT, OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE FORMER REGIMENTS, AND THEIR DEPANDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS. 4. THE CHATTELS BRANCH - THE USE AND PRESERVATION OF THE CHATTELS OF THE REGIMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE REGIMENT.
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Colin Weir Chair since 2018
- Andrew Hart since 2020
- Austin Baird since 2019
- Hugh Crossey since 2022
- MC Meehan since 2007
- Matthew Lewis since 2024
- NP Perry since 2014
- Rev Andrew Totten since 2019
- Richard Sheridan since 2025
- Robert Small since 2025
- Thomas Forrest since 2025
- Wayne Nickels since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Colin Weir Chair since 2018
- Austin Baird since 2019
- MC Meehan since 2007
- NP Perry since 2014
- Rev Andrew Totten since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (12)
- Colin Weir Chair since 2018
- Andrew Hart since 2020
- Austin Baird since 2019
- Hugh Crossey since 2022
- MC Meehan since 2007
- Matthew Lewis since 2024
- NP Perry since 2014
- Rev Andrew Totten since 2019
- Richard Sheridan since 2025
- Robert Small since 2025
- Thomas Forrest since 2025
- Wayne Nickels since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1052056
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME DATED 06/09/1995AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 07/02/2013
- Contact on the register
- 07311 325744 · rhqririshnpa@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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