Royal Engineers Central Charitable Trust

Analysis

Royal Engineers Central Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in May 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty and amateur sport, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Royal Engineers Central Charitable Trust reported income of £1.5m and spending of £1.5m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £1.4m to £1.5m (+7.3%), an average of +1.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Royal Engineers Central Charitable Trust sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Peters Italian Catholic Church Little Saffron Hill (£1.5m), Sutton and Cheam Elderly People's Housing Association (£1.5m) and Hartcliffe and Withywood Ventures (£1.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 59%, investments 25% and trading 16%. Charitable activities took 82% of spending and raising funds 14%. Reserves of £11.0m would cover about 83 months of spending at that rate. It employed 17 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.