Common questions about Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity a good charity? +
Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity scores 75 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 65% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1134205). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1134205&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's charity number? +
Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's charity number is 1134205. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's charity rating? +
Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity scores 75 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 65% of Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 35% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 37% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity. Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity receive? +
Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity reported £5.8m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-07-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity based? +
Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's registered contact address is in Exeter (EX8 5AR). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's money come from? +
Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity reported £5.8m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £4.6m (80%), charitable activities £875k (15%), investments £252k (4%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £406k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity? +
The register records Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's trustees paid? +
Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity: Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund; The Royal Marines Charity; RMA-The Royal Marines Charity.
When was Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity registered as a charity? +
Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity was entered on the register on 8 February 2010. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07142012).
How does CharityCompare score Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.