Royal Welch Fusiliers Officers Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Royal Welch Fusiliers Officers Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wrexham. It was registered in April 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Royal Welch Fusiliers Officers Benevolent Fund reported income of £16k and spending of £18k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £50k to £16k (-67%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Royal Welch Fusiliers Officers Benevolent Fund sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thomas Sanderson's Charity (£16k), Phillipstown Residents and Community Association (£16k) and The Sarojben Patel Memorial Trust (£16k).

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.