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Registered charity · Kent

Royal Engineers Association

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 7 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.reahq.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£2.0m
  • 2024£1.4m£2.0m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.9m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

A. TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT THE CORPS AMONG MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:(1) BY FOSTERING ESPRIT DE CORPS AND A SPIRIT OF COMRADESHIP AND SERVICE.(2) BY MAINTAINING AN AWARENESS OF CORPS TRADITIONS.(3) BY ACTING AS A LINK BETWEEN SERVING AND RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE CORPS.B. TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO SERVING AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE CORPS, THEIR SPOUSES, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN NEED THROUGH POVERTY.C. TO MAKE GRANTS, WITHIN ASSOCIATION GUIDELINES, TO THE ARMY BENEVOLENT FUND AND TO OTHER CHARITIES THAT FURTHER THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION.

Grants received

15 grants · £78,554 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £68,040 (13 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £10,514 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £1,0002025-04-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £2,8802010-05-19
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £2,8052008-08-18
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £6,5002008-03-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,9722007-05-23
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.

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

0
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 11Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Amateur Sport 1Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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£1.4m 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.

70.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 108.6 in 2020

11 from 6 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
258322
Status
Registered
Governing document
DEED OF DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 19 NOVEMBER 1968 AND SUPPLEMENTAL DEED DATED 1 DECEMBER 1974 AS VARIED BY A SCHEME OF THE COMMISSIONERS DATED 11TH AUGUST 1997 as amended on 30 May 2025
Contact on the register
01634847005 · ken.kirk@reahq.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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