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Registered charity · Surrey

Royal British Legion Poppy Factory

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £4.8m (2025)
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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
Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website
www.poppyfactory.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.8m£5.4m
  • 2024£4.6m£4.9m
  • 2023£4.5m£5.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.1m£4.7m
  • 2021£4.1m£4.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF HEALTH CONDITIONS OR OTHER BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO GAIN MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT

Grants received

11 grants · £1,160,943 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.

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Most recent

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.

6.1y median 6y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure
11.5y
average years in governance
10
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 10Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

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

Manufacturing 10Property 5Construction 3

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.8m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.2 in 2021

57 from 60 in 2021
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
225348
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11TH MARCH 1925 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS ON 19TH APRIL 1969 AND THEN VARIOUSLY UNTIL 7 APRIL 2006. NOW ARTICLES AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 24 APRIL 2012 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 05 APR 2017 AS AMENDED ON 04 APR 2024AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04 AUG 2025 as amended on 04 Aug 2025
Companies House
Company number 00204405 · Active
Contact on the register
02089403305 · admin@poppyfactory.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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