South East Reserves and Cadets Welfare Fund

Analysis

South East Reserves and Cadets Welfare Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in October 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and armed forces/emergency service efficiency, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, South East Reserves and Cadets Welfare Fund reported income of £15k and spending of £32k, spending 223% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £6,361 to £15k (+128%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 206%. Over the whole period it spent 221% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, South East Reserves and Cadets Welfare Fund sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Staffordshire United Services Aid Fund (£15k), Jamia Dar-Ul-Uloom Al-Islamiah (£15k) and Friends of Alchemy World (£15k).

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.