Support for Charities

The Club doesn’t select preferred charities. Instead, it assists members and employees to support the charity they want to help. We aim to provide:

• support to worthy causes
• a consistent and transparent approach, with opportunities available to all members and employees
• a positive experience for members and for employees.

Eligible charities

Charities benefitting from support through this policy must:

• be on the register of the Charity Commission for England and Wales, the Scottish Charity Regulator or the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

and

• provide a benefit within London or Surrey (including national charities with a presence in these areas).

Support available

Three forms of support are available to members. Please note that only Full Members of the Club may apply.

1. Prize Experiences

Each year, the Director of Operations will create a list of experiences which can be provided as vouchers for charity fundraising auctions and similar activities. These vouchers will be supplied to members (and only to members, not directly to charities) who are raising money for charities, on a first-come first-served basis.

No member will receive more than one voucher in any calendar year and no charity will benefit from more than one voucher in any calendar year. The 25 experiences available during 2025 include afternoon tea, overnight stays and golf at Woodcote Park.

To enquire about the vouchers still available, please email the following information to charity@royalautomobileclub.co.uk

• name and membership number of the member applying
• the purpose of the voucher (e.g. a charity auction) – please provide as much information as possible
• the date of the fundraising event
• the name of the charity which would benefit and its charity registration number (it must be an eligible charity as defined above)
• any preference for the type of voucher (which we may not always be able to accommodate).

2. Charity Website Listing

Later this year the Club will be launching a new area of the Club website where members will be able to promote their charity fundraising activities.

Listings may be used to promote any fundraising activity by a Club member in aid of any registered charity. A link to a fundraising page (such as ‘JustGiving’) will be permitted.

3. Match Funding for Activity Groups

The Club will match the amount raised for a charity by any Activity Group Committee (which, for the purposes of this policy, includes golf, squash and Cedars Sports).

The Club’s contribution will be to a maximum, in the period of July to December 2025, of:

• £6,000 in total
• £1,500 in total to any one charity
• £1,500 in total to the fundraising activities of any one Activity Group Committee.

Any Activity Group Committee wishing to take advantage of this scheme must gain acceptance onto this scheme before fundraising commences and before the fundraising activities are announced to members.

The benefitting charity must be an eligible charity as defined above.

Requests for Activity Group Match Funding should be submitted to Head of Membership by a representative of the Activity Group Committee.

Reporting

It is a condition of receiving Club support that the member commits to providing information to the Club after the charitable activity has taken place. This should include, for example, photographs and information about what happened and how much was raised.

It must be emailed to charity@royalautomobileclub.co.uk no more than one week after the charitable activity has taken place.

This material may be used in Club communications (such as the Club magazine and on social media).