Registered charity · Winchester
The Rifles Benevolent Trust
- 10 trustees
- Income £1.0m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Simon Charles HazlittChair
- Brigadier James Michael Henry Allen OBETrustee · since 2025
- Brigadier Matthew BakerTrustee · since 2024
- Captain Adrian Matthew HinksTrustee · since 2024
- Colonel Ralph Graham ArundellTrustee · since 2018
- Henry Charles SteelTrustee · since 2020
- Lieutenant Colonel Peter James Alexander Balls OBETrustee · since 2018
- Major General Daniel Reeve MCTrustee · since 2019
- Rebecca Charlotte MaciejewskaTrustee · since 2021
- Robert Charles ReynoldsTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- theriflesnetwork.co.uk/page/benevolence-trust (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2007
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.0m£927k
- 2024£1.0m£895k
- 2023£919k£939k
Earlier years
- 2022£1.2m£1.0m
- 2021£947k£691k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE SERVING OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE FORMING REGIMENTS OR THE DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS OR OLD AGE; ANDTO RELIEVE OTHER PERSONS WHO (IN THE TRUSTEES’ OPINION) PROVIDE HELP OR SUPPORT TO MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT OR FORMER MEMBERS OF FORMING REGIMENTS AND WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS, OLD AGE OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Simon Charles Hazlitt Chair
- Brigadier James Michael Henry Allen OBE since 2025
- Brigadier Matthew Baker since 2024
- Captain Adrian Matthew Hinks since 2024
- Colonel Ralph Graham Arundell since 2018
- Henry Charles Steel since 2020
- Lieutenant Colonel Peter James Alexander Balls OBE since 2018
- Major General Daniel Reeve MC since 2019
- Rebecca Charlotte Maciejewska since 2021
- Robert Charles Reynolds since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Colonel Ralph Graham Arundell since 2018
- Henry Charles Steel since 2020
- Lieutenant Colonel Peter James Alexander Balls OBE since 2018
- Major General Daniel Reeve MC since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Brigadier Matthew Baker since 2024
Portfolio (9)
- Simon Charles Hazlitt Chair
- Brigadier James Michael Henry Allen OBE since 2025
- Captain Adrian Matthew Hinks since 2024
- Colonel Ralph Graham Arundell since 2018
- Henry Charles Steel since 2020
- Lieutenant Colonel Peter James Alexander Balls OBE since 2018
- Major General Daniel Reeve MC since 2019
- Rebecca Charlotte Maciejewska since 2021
- Robert Charles Reynolds since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1119071
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 1 APRIL 2007 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTARY DEED 6 DECEMBER 2007AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 10 MAY 2016
- Contact on the register
- 01962 828530 · riflescharities@the-rifles.co.uk
- 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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