Registered charity (CIO) · London
United Kingdom Reserve Forces Association
- 4 trustees
- Income £515k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£515k£582k
- 2024£543k£544k
- 2023£373k£452k
Earlier years
- 2022£169k£96k
- 2021£190k£80k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 100%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO FURTHER THE EFFICIENCY OF THE RESERVE FORCES OF THE CROWN FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:1.ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THEIR PERSONNEL BOTH SERVING AND RETIRED;2.PROMOTING INTEREST AND MORALE IN THE RESERVE FORCES OF THE CROWN AND RECRUITMENT TO THEM;3.PROMOTING THE RESERVE FORCES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM WITHIN THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NATO), THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS, BY UNDERTAKING THE INTERCHANGE OF IDEAS AND GOOD PRACTICE WITH THE RESERVE FORCES OF ALLIED NATIONS THROUGH INVOLVEMENT IN SUCH MILITARY COMPETITIONS AND TRAINING EXERCISES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES 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.
4 trustees on the board
- Colonel Christopher LEE Argent Qvrm TD DL FCA since 2019
- Major General Gregory Stephen Smith CB Qvrm TD since 2019
- Major General James Henry Gordon CB CBE since 2019
- Surgeon Commander Andrew William Murrison MP since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Colonel Christopher LEE Argent Qvrm TD DL FCA since 2019
- Major General Gregory Stephen Smith CB Qvrm TD since 2019
- Major General James Henry Gordon CB CBE since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Colonel Christopher LEE Argent Qvrm TD DL FCA since 2019
- Surgeon Commander Andrew William Murrison MP since 2022
Portfolio (2)
- Major General Gregory Stephen Smith CB Qvrm TD since 2019
- Major General James Henry Gordon CB CBE since 2019
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.3 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1181194
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 17 Dec 2018
- Contact on the register
- 02074268358 · co-rfa@rfca.mod.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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