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Impact Report 2024/2025

The Royal Artillery Charities — comprising the Royal Artillery Charitable Fund, Royal Artillery Association and Royal Artillery Institution — support serving and veteran Gunners and their families. In 2024, over £1.9 million was spent on charitable causes, including welfare grants to 1,118 individual cases, direct regimental support, sports and adventurous training, and preservation of regimental heritage. The Association operates 71 branches across 13 regions with international reach into Germany, France, Spain and Australia.

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Over £265,000 granted to regimental heritage preservation, including visits by 1,000 individuals to the RA Collection

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 1,118 welfare cases supported in 2024 (91 serving, 1,027 veterans including families)
Key Metric 2 Over £733,000 in welfare support to veteran and serving Gunners
Key Metric 3 Over £188,000 granted to 24 Royal Artillery sports teams and adventurous training expeditions

Key Outcomes

  • £12.413 million total charitable spend 2019–2023 against £12.547 million income
  • 2359138
  • 1622000

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UK-Wide

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Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
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22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
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733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
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1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
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349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
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£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022