About the RLC Connect
After 31 years of dedicated service and driven by a change to charity law, the RLC Association Trust has successfully transferred its operations to become The RLC Charity, now established as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). In parallel, the RLC Foundation, as an integral element of the new charity, has also been required to restructure and change it's title to comply with Charity Commission legal guidance. Accordingly, the current RLC Foundation Board has become the Professional Excellence Committee of the RLC Charity, with a professional membership organisation, now rebranded as RLC Connect. This transition strengthens our ability to support the RLC family, our industry partners and academia, providing a more robust and flexible framework to continue our essential work. The move to a CIO offers enhanced legal protection and efficiency, ensuring that we can focus more resources on delivering valuable support where it is needed.
What We Do
- Sponsoring, facilitating and organising events of interest to RLC soldiers and officers and our commercial and academic partners. These include seminars, ‘round-table’ events, demonstrations and visits to military units and commercial company locations. It also includes supporting external events with expert military speakers.
- Creation and publication of thought leadership through a variety of media: The RLC Review, white papers, and the LinkedIn -RLC Connect Moot group.
- Bespoke events, including those requested by RLC units and individual corporate members, to examine specific issues or topics.
- Sponsoring and supporting competitions aimed at stimulating professional discussion and debate.
- Hosting an annual awards dinner to recognise military logistic and professional development excellence.
- Administering other military logistics awards on behalf of other entities which support the purpose of The RLC Connect.
- Promoting and providing information on academic professional development opportunities.
- Creation of networking events to support transition planning.
- Provide a portal for the RLC retired community to retain or re-generate professional relationships with the serving RLC, enabling them to bring their additional skills and experience back into the community.
RLC Roles
The RLC is the Army’s professional logistics organisation. It is the largest corps in the Army, with 11,000 regular and 5,000 reserve officers and soldiers and is organised into logistic regiments with a national footprint covering all parts of the UK, plus some overseas bases. In addition to our own regiments, RLC soldiers and officers serve in most other units across the Army, providing trade expertise, and provide higher-level logistic planning expertise that is integral to the Army’s major headquarters, within DE&S and PJHQ and within MoD Main Building. The RLC has 12 direct entry trades and 4 non-direct entry trades; Army Photographer, Driver Tank Transporter Operator, Driver Vehicle Support Specialist and Systems Analyst as shown below:
The RLC Connect Professional Excellence Committee
RLC Connect (previously RLC Foundation) is an integral part of the newly renamed RLC Charity, now established as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Our rebranding is to comply with Charity Commission legal guidance. RLC Connect has its own Professional Excellence Committee (PEC) chaired by Major General Angus Fay and comprises senior serving RLC officers, heads of RLC trades and representatives from our industry partners. As well as providing overall governance and strategic direction to RLC Connect, the PEC's breadth of expertise enables it to continually monitor and evaluate changes in both the Army and the commercial logistics sector and adapt RLC Connect activities to ensure they remain appropriate and relevant.