Welcome to the Royal Green Jackets Association Management Board website
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With the merger of the Royal Green Jackets, the Light Infantry, the Devon and Dorsets Light Infantry and the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry into one new regiment call The Rifles on 1st February 2007 the Royal Green Jackets Association was reorganised as follows:
Executive Committee.
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An executive committee capable of taking key decisions, giving coordinated RGJ advice to RHQ The Rifles and direction to the remaining RGJ elements. It will consist of a President and two, and will initially meet quarterly. The Col Comdts have selected Maj Gen Jamie Balfour as President, with Brig David Homer and Capt Bill Shipton as the other members. Until RGJ funds are transferred to the Rifles, the Chairman of the RGJ Trustees, Capt Patrick Mitford Slade, will also be a member of the executive committee and the Trustees will continue until then. The President will be ex officio President of both the Association and the Officers Dining Club.
Management Board.
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This will consist of the executive committee, the Chairmen of the RGJ Regimental Association (Lt Col John Poole Warren) and the Officers Dining Club (Brig James Plastow), a TA/Cadets representative (Lt Col Marius Coulon), Regimental property (Christopher Steele), the RGJ Regimental Association Website Manager (Kevin Stevens), RHQ Rifles Treasurer (Ian Foster), and a Secretary (Lt Col Peter Chamberlin until he retires and then the RHQ Rifles London Asst Regt Sec for RGJ matters, Lt Col Jan-Dirk von Merveldt). Until transferred to The Rifles, the RGJ Museum (Lt Gen Christopher Wallace), GJ Club (Maj Gen Charles Vyvyan), Ladies Guild (Mrs Liz Vyvyan), and RGJdirect (Brig James Plastow), will also be members of the Board, and will retain their own committees. The AO from RHQ Rifles London office, which will be responsible for RGJ matters, will be In Attendance to help ensure a proper flow of regimental information and coordination both ways with RHQ The Rifles. Consideration will be given at its first meeting to having additional members co-opted onto the board to represent the wider membership. In due course when remaining functions have been transferred the Executive and Management Board will be merged.
RGJ Association.
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To be the central RGJ Regimental organisation, to which all ranks will be members and subscribe. Little change from the current organisation is expected with a main committee and regional branches, taking direction from the executive and management board as required. However officers will in future be allocated to a regional branch based on their home address, and encouraged to participate in branch activities to a greater extent than at present. The main Association event will continue to be the annual reunion at Winchester, which will receive financial support from RGJ central funds.
Officers Dining Club.
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This will be part of the Association, but will continue as at present for 2007 with the current subscription (£50) to cover the last RGJ Chronicle and the 2007 dinner. From 2008, after a review to reflect The Rifles assuming wider responsibilities, there will be a reduced membership subscription for officers. This will provide as a minimum, membership of the RGJ Association, The Rifles Clubs (London, Oxford, and Salisbury), entitlement to attend the annual RGJ Officers Club dinner in London, and a copy of the annual The Rifles Yearbook (Diary of Key Events). Other social events will be limited as maximum support will be given to supporting The Rifles Officers Club events.
Administration.
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The RGJ post 1 Feb must aim to be as self sufficient and efficient as possible. The key to this will be a much improved central data base of all members to be held in The Rifles RHQ offices, maximum use of the RGJRA websites for communication, and a revised membership subscription scheme, all designed to be available to as many of those who have served as RGJ as possible. RHQ The Rifles will have specific responsibilities to support the RGJ post 1 Feb, and their new London Office in Davies Street, with Lt Col Jan-Dirk von Merveldt and Richard Frost, will provide the focal point for RGJ administrative support. This will include finance, benevolence, and access as appropriate to The Rifles bands and bugles. Further work is in hand to identify the best way of subscribing to The Rifles Chronicle and The Bugle (replacing Swift and Bold) for all RGJ members, either direct by individuals to RHQ Rifles or as part of RGJ membership subscriptions. A full check on regimental property is also being carried out by Christopher Steele. Before they retire in the summer, Lt Col Peter Chamberlin and Maj Andy McGrigor will help establish the new RGJ organisation and new arrangements.
.Finance.
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In principle, apart from basic membership fees, all RGJRA organised events will be self supporting and self financed. The RGJ Col Comdts and Regtl Trustees have agreed that before being transferred to The Rifles, some RGJ capital funding will be allocated to the RGJ. This will cover RGJ routine administrative and communication costs, support the annual RGJ Regimental Association Reunion, and support the RGJ Museum (until transferred to The Rifles). These funds will be managed centrally by RHQ Rifles and allocated by the RGJ Management Board.
