Registered charity (CIO) · Lichfield
The Mercian Regimental Charity
- 11 trustees
- Income £274k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- LT GEN SIR IAN Cave KCBChair · since 2013
- Brig Charles Ginn CBETrustee · since 2022
- Brig Philip Kimber OBETrustee · since 2017
- Brig Simon Banton OBETrustee · since 2017
- COL Adrian Walton MBETrustee
- LT COL Andrew LawsonTrustee · since 2025
- LT COL Mark Jackson OBETrustee
- LT COL Neil MackintoshTrustee · since 2020
- LT COL Neil Parkinson OBETrustee · since 2025
- MAJ Mark BanksTrustee · since 2024
- Mark ElliottTrustee · since 2013
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Environment/conservation/heritage, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£274k£201k
- 2024£275k£304k
- 2023£153k£151k
Earlier years
- 2022£141k£264k
- 2021£157k£163k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REGIMENT IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE;2) THE PRESERVATION OF THE MEMORIALS AND CHAPELS OF THE REGIMENT AND THE FORMER REGIMENTS, INCLUDING THE PRESERVATION IN PERPETUITY OF THE CRICH MEMORIAL AND ITS GROUNDS;3) TO SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE REGIMENT OR THE FORMER REGIMENTS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE
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.
11 trustees on the board
- LT GEN SIR IAN Cave KCB Chair since 2013
- Brig Philip Kimber OBE since 2017
- Brig Charles Ginn CBE since 2022
- Brig Simon Banton OBE since 2017
- COL Adrian Walton MBE
- LT COL Andrew Lawson since 2025
- LT COL Mark Jackson OBE
- LT COL Neil Mackintosh since 2020
- LT COL Neil Parkinson OBE since 2025
- MAJ Mark Banks since 2024
- Mark Elliott since 2013
Trustees past 6 years
- LT GEN SIR IAN Cave KCB Chair since 2013
- Brig Philip Kimber OBE since 2017
- Brig Simon Banton OBE since 2017
- LT COL Neil Mackintosh since 2020
- Mark Elliott since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- LT COL Neil Parkinson OBE since 2025
Portfolio (10)
- LT GEN SIR IAN Cave KCB Chair since 2013
- Brig Philip Kimber OBE since 2017
- Brig Charles Ginn CBE since 2022
- Brig Simon Banton OBE since 2017
- COL Adrian Walton MBE
- LT COL Andrew Lawson since 2025
- LT COL Mark Jackson OBE
- LT COL Neil Mackintosh since 2020
- MAJ Mark Banks since 2024
- Mark Elliott since 2013
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.
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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
- 1177059
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 08 Feb 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01543434353 · pamela.mear703@mod.gov.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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