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History – Timeline
www.rma-trmc.org
2020
In December 2020 the Charity
delivered over the Gordon Messenger
Centre at CTCRM to the Corps,
providing a state of the art whole
Corps Family resilience-enabling and
community facility at the heart of
the Corps, a £2.7M project started in
2014 which paralleled the mergers
and recent history of the Charity.
Beyond
2020 saw needs rising across every
sphere of our work, following trends
from previous years but further
exacerbated by the pandemic. To
meet this rising need year-on-year,
the Charity has put in place the
people, resources, and processes
necessary to provide effective
support to the Royal Marines family.
2021
Since 2010
when RMCTF
was established,
almost £22M has
been distributed
in grants
...across the Corps Family, but RMA
– The Royal Marines Charity is now
a whole service delivery charity.
Operating from a HQ at CTCRM,
but with satellite offices at Whale
Island, Stonehouse Barracks Plymouth
and Piccadilly in London, we offer
preventative and reactive benevolence
support to individuals and families
in need, employment support to RM
who are compulsorily discharged
or who find themselves in need
as veterans, membership services
to the now over 16,000 members
in 89 worldwide geographical and
virtual branches (including sports,
military specialisms and the arts),
undergirded by an effective fundraising
and communications function.
A Brief
History of the
Royal Marines
Association
By John Rawlinson,
Honorary Editor, RMHS
Illustration: A Cartoon from the Globe & Laurel, Feb/Mar 1959.
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Celebrating the 75th Year of the RMA
