RMP CENTRAL BENEVOLENT FUND (CBF) (Charity Commission Registration Number 248713)

The Royal Military Police Central Benevolent Fund (“The Fund”) was established by a Charitable Trust Deed on 31st January 1944, as amended in December 1968 and subsequently in January 1993; in June 1998; and again in January 2019.

  The Trust's objectives are:

a. to maintain or to increase the efficiency and esprit de corps of the Royal Military Police; and

b. in the assistance or benefit of any such person serving or having at any time served in the Royal Military Police or being dependents, wives, widows or issue or persons in the Royal Military Police as may for the time being be in need of charitable assistance or benefit.

Funding for the RMP CBF is derived from donations, legacies and investment income.

Applications for benevolent grants for serving members may be made direct to RHQ RMP or through the Unit Chain-of-Command.  All other applications are made through either the Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airforce Association (Forces Help) (SSAFA(FH)), the Army Benevolent Fund (The Soldiers’ Charity) (ABF) or the Royal British Legion (RBL).

If you are considering gifting or donating to the RMP CBF you can download, complete and return the attached proforma:

CBF will and donation form

You can find out more about the CBF: here

RMP REGIMENTAL FUND

The Royal Military Police Regimental Fund, which is a charitable Service Fund of the Armed Forces of the Crown, and as such is an Excepted Charity under the Charities Act 1993, that operates under the regulation of the Charity Commission but is exempt from registering or submitting annual returns publicly. It also means that it has not had a Registered Charity Number of its own since 1997, in accordance with the Charities (Exception from Registration) Regulations 1996 (as amended.)

RMP MUSEUM (Charity Commission Registration Number 280060)

Funding for the RMP Museum, which is an Unincorporated Charity, is derived from donations and investment income.  The objectives of the Museum are to:

a.         maintain the traditions of the Military Police;

b.         perpetrating its deeds; and

c.         hold in trust the Corps Collection.

MEETINGS

Details of all meetings and events related to the RMP Charities throughout the year are shown on this website on the events page, but in outline are:

a.         Church Parade and Service at the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula, Her Majesty’s Fortress and Tower of London - annually in February;

b.         RMP Museum Trustees - annually in February, June and October;

c.         RMPA AGM and Annual Reunion - annually in May;

d.         National Memorial Arboretum (NAM) Parade - annually on the first Saturday in June;

e.       Provost Officers' Reunion Dinner - annually in November;

f.         RMP and Military Provost Staff (MPS) ceremony at the Field of Remembrance, Westminster Abbey - annually on the Saturday of Remembrance Weekend, in November;

g.          RMPA Cenotaph Parade - on Remembrance Sunday, in November;

h.          RMP CBF Trustees - annually Mar, July and November; and

i.         RMP Memorial Chapel Council - As required, with inter-denominational Services monthly.