b'IMPACT REPORT 2021Originally conceived by the Admiralty Board to helpBoard, and truly embracing a cradle-to-grave ethos for consolidate a disparate number of non-public fundseveryone linked to the Corps. Overcoming eye watering held by the Admiralty and the Royal Navy, as welllegal, emotional, fiscal, and regulatory hurdles, the as assisting in a drive for greater cooperation andoverwhelming success of this endeavour, creating a collaboration in the naval charity sector, our remit andsingle point of charitable contact for the Royal Marines, our ambition has matured over the past decade, butshouldin my mindbe seen as the exemplar of best remains essentially the samemaximising the benefitpractice, ensuring that the needs of the beneficiary for our beneficiaries, while minimising our overheads. overcome all other considerations. In the near future,Nowadays I am proud to be the senior uniformedI greatly look forward to the lessons of this Royal Trustee of this vibrant forward-looking charity, whichMarines charity consolidation process being examined is passionate about its role as the hub for the familyclosely and considered further by the wider naval of naval charities, and proud to be the leading navalcharities family.voice within the wider maritime charities community. So, as I leave the RNRMC Board at the end of my Since I joined the board in 2013 as a junior Commander,maximum allowable 9-year term, I would like to pay I have witnessed us at the forefront of adapting to thetribute to the many thousands of hard working charity changing national and international environment inemployees, fundraisers, supporters, and friends across which military charities operate. From the height of thethe Royal Navy and within the RNRMC Group, who work operations in Afghanistan, to a global pandemic, via theso hard at ensuring that, whether you are serving or resurgence of Russian aggression, and an increase inretired (or a family member of either), everything the awareness of mental health issues, the RNRMC worksCharity does is focussed upon understanding, and then extremely hard to ensure that we remain in the mostaiming to meet, the urgent and enduring needs of you - privileged position possible - to be by your side. those who serve their country at sea, on land, in the air, Perhaps the most obvious example of the continuousor on the home front. Thank you, RNRMC, and BZ.journey of evolution and improvement over the last 9 years is the truly impressive way in which one partREAR ADMIRAL JAMES PARKIN CBEof our Group grasped the opportunity to combine DIRECTOR DEVELOP, ROYAL NAVY HANDING OVER THE WATCH numerous different types of Royal Marines charityRNRMC TRUSTEE 2013 - 2022(benevolence, membership, employment assistance, in-service support) to form a single, powerful, body THOUGHTS FROM A DEPARTING TRUSTEERMA, The Royal Marines Charity, run by a single At the beginning of 2020 the RNRMC became part of the Military Mental Health Having the opportunity to sit in front of the fire and talk openly about my Alliance, an informal consorAs I look back over my 9 yeatium of healthcarrs as a Trustee ofe pr theo Rviders, charities and other oyal Navy and Royal Marines current stresses and physical difficulties makorganisations across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight working in pares me aware that my situation is tnership to Charity, I am struck by how much change has taken place since those early not unique and ther vices designed to provide mental health suppor t for create interconnected sere is light at the end of the tunnel.years of the Charitys existence, but equally how much the mission and the zeal veterans, serving personnel, reservists and their families. for helping our beneficiaries has remained unaltered.56 57'