Red Cypher is the Regimental charity for 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery.

The charity provides financial grants to assist, generally or individually, past and present members of the Regiment and its dependents, who are in conditions of need, hardship, or distress. This can include assisting families to visit loved ones in hospital, financial help towards electric wheelchairs for disabled veterans or dependants, helping to pay for accommodation, bills, or transport. Helping serving personnel to get back from deployment to care for sick partners or children and even contributing to larger projects such as disabled adaptations for our veterans, supporting The Royal British Legion to deliver life changing improvements.

We also provide grants to maintain comradeship and contact between past and present members of the Regiment, fostering mutual friendship and providing support towards social gatherings for them such as the Annual Past and Present Members Reunion Dinner and the post Cenotaph Parade Lunch on Remembrance Sunday each year to ensure these gatherings are as affordable as possible to all members.

The charity also financially supports the Past and Present Members Standard Parties who do such a wonderful job of representing us at the funerals of comrades. The Standard Parties give their time freely and as many of you will have observed uphold the tradition of excellence expected of 3RHA. The charity provides coffin drapes, Standards and accessories plus cover travel and associated costs for the parties and the Remembrance Broaches presented to loved one.

We do not employ staff, so rely on the goodwill of our fantastic Trustees who give their time to manage the charity, supporting both the serving and veteran community and their dependants whilst ensuring compliance with Charity Commission guidelines. This can mean many hours with accounting, regulatory reporting, processing applications, updating the website, meetings and catch ups plus liaising with supporters to create donation platforms to support our work. These are just some of the elements needed to help the charity to function, and without all our Trustees, both past and present who have created, built, nurtured, and developed the charity to what it is now, this would never have been possible.

Red Cypher is your charity, and we are here to help. If you are in need of assistance, please reach out to us. All requests for assistance are treated with the utmost confidentiality.