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Registered charity · Exmouth

Royal Marines Association - the Royal Marines Charity

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £5.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Disability, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency, Recreation, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.rma-trmc.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Marines Association - the Royal Marines Charity
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.8m£5.8m
  • 2024£6.2m£6.6m
  • 2023£7.7m£6.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.4m£5.6m
  • 2021£4.6m£4.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

3.1.1 TO MAINTAIN AND INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ROYAL MARINES, AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE THE ESPRIT DE CORPS, HERITAGE, ETHOS AND TRADITIONS OF THE CORPS;3.1.2 TO ASSIST OR BENEFIT PERSONS SERVING IN OR WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE ROYAL MARINES OR OF SUCH DEPENDANTS, SPOUSES, CIVIL PARTNERS, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, CHILDREN (INCLUDING ADOPTED CHILDREN) OR IMMEDIATE CLOSE FAMILY OF SUCH PERSONS AS MAY FOR THE TIME BEING BE IN NEED OF CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE OR BENEFIT;3.1.3 TO COMMEMORATE AND REMEMBER THOSE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL MARINES WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES OR SUFFERED INJURY, OR PUT THEMSELVES AT RISK OF LOSS OF LIFE OR INJURY, IN SERVICE OF THE CROWN AND TO ENCOURAGE PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF THEIR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE;3.1.4 TO SUPPORT THE ROYAL MARINES, THE ROYAL MARINES CADET SECTION OF THE SEA CADET CORPS, THE ROYAL MARINES CADET SECTION OF THE COMBINED CADET FORCE, THE ROYAL MARINES VOLUNTEER CADET CORPS BY ANY OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME PERMIT.

Grants received

35 grants · £1,215,552 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Ministry of Defence · £920,909 (11 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £170,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £59,643 (20 grants)
  • Veterans Foundation · £50,000
  • Pears Foundation · £15,000

Most recent

  • Veterans Foundation £50,0002024-12-18
  • Ministry of Defence £96,0002024-12-13
  • Ministry of Defence £95,3302023-09-22
  • Ministry of Defence £100,0002023-02-10
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £160,0002022-03-31
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.

16 trustees on the board

3.8y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (2)

15
company-linked trustees

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

Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 16Disability 16Recreation 14General Charitable Purposes 2

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

Finance 18Public administration 15Professional services 8

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£6.2m latest income
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.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.5 in 2020

33 from 34 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
1134205
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 FEB 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 APR 2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 21 DEC 2016 as amended on 01 Apr 2019 as amended on 04 Apr 2019 as amended on 27 Jan 2022
Companies House
Company number 07142012 · Active
Contact on the register
02393981959 · enquiries@rma-trmc.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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