The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Aid Society

Registered charity 259229 · since 1969fusiliersconnect.com·England·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£314k

Annual giving, year to 31 December 2024

From filed accounts

Key takeaways

This funder fits organisations whose work directly supports serving or retired Fusiliers, their widows and dependants, because its individual help is limited to those people.
Its published process is for individuals, who are told to contact SSAFA or TRBL for a caseworker visit, and its website gives no public application route for organisations, so any approach would be made without a published process.
If you do support Fusiliers, note that the Society generally part-funds rather than meeting a full request, that it expects state funding to have been applied for first, and that its average individual grant was £533 across 188 cases, so a modest, well-supported request fits its pattern.
No deadlines, grant range or information on how competitive or relationship-led its giving is are given, so plan on that basis.
Do not apply for fines, car costs unless medically justified, legal bills, private medical bills, business debts, or repatriation costs for uninsured people, as the Society does not usually fund these.

Overview

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Aid Society is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 259229).

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Aid Society is a registered charity whose object is to provide advice and assistance to serving and past members of the Regiment and the Regiments it was formed from, along with their widows and dependants, mainly through financial grants. In its latest annual report it awarded £313,868 in total, which may include grants to individuals. Of this, grants for the benefit of individuals totalled £100,383 across 188 cases, donations to external charities directly supporting serving and retired Fusiliers totalled £66,030, and welfare grants to regular Battalion, reserve Battalion and Army Reserve units totalled £25,000.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Society’s benevolence and welfare support is for serving and retired Fusiliers, including regulars and reserves badged to the Regiment, and their families and dependants when facing hardship or need. It offers advice and assistance, usually as financial grants, and makes grants when beneficiaries are in need and towards education. Examples of assistance include rent and priority utility costs, essential clothing and household goods, food in emergencies, mobility and medical aids, respite or convalescent holidays, essential home repairs, training and repatriation in qualifying circumstances. The Society considers each case on its own merits and expects state funding to have been applied for and other funding avenues exhausted; it generally part-funds rather than meeting the full request. Its institutional giving includes donations to external charities directly supporting serving and retired Fusiliers, and welfare grants to regular and reserve battalions and Army Reserve units.

Themes

Hardship relief
Education

What they don't fund

Assistance to pay off fines (the Trustees would not usually authorise aid)
Grants to car owners, unless medically justified (the Trustees would not usually authorise aid)
Payment of legal bills, private medical bills and business debts (the Trustees would not usually authorise aid)
Repatriation costs only: Assistance will not be provided for uninsured persons

How to apply

For individual assistance, the person in need should contact SSAFA or TRBL and request a caseworker visit. The site gives no public application route for organisations seeking grants.

What to send:

A confirmed job offer must be provided in the case of benevolence requests for course/training fees.
A business case must be provided in the case of self-employment.

Where they fund

Registered area of operation (Charity Commission)

England

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Aid Society.

PWRR Benevolent FundNo public processGave £150k The Regimental Charity of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)No public processGave £65,808 Support Our ParasNo public processGave £354k The Irish Guards CharityNo public processGave £126k The Team Forces FoundationRollingGave £740k Lest We Forget AssociationNo public process The Coldstream Guards CharityNo public processGave £313k Royal Artillery Charitable FundNo public processGave £304k The Scots Guards CharityNo public processGave £64,850 The Clocktower FoundationInvitation onlyGave £867k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2020	£321,723	£300,334	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2020
year to 31 December 2021	£534,803	£531,729	£97,108	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£516,496	£330,254	£91,462	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£316,651	£405,519	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£360,257	£547,891	£313,868	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2021

£97,108 grants

YE 2022

£91,462 grants

YE 2024

£314k awarded

Grants paid stayed within income across the 3 years shown.

Grants paid, year to 31 December 2021; year to 31 December 2022: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
Grants paid, year to 31 December 2024: grants awarded in the year, as reported in the accounts.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.