BRITISH FORCES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1075109 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4969990 · Wikipedia · also known as BFF

The British Forces Foundation provides top quality, morale boosting welfare for the men and women of Britain's Armed Forces, on Operations all over the world, principally through live entertainment -conveying the gratitude of the British Public for the sacrifices they make.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES BY CHARITABLE MEANS, BY PROMOTING THE WELL-BEING AND ESPRIT DE CORPS OF ALL SERVING PERSONNEL, PRIMARILY THROUGH ENTERTAINMENT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves of £360,687, which equate to approximately two years' operating costs. The trustees consider the charity a going concern, noting that while financially stable, greater cash resources would be prudent to underwrite potential drops in income.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The British Forces Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (60% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 32.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Admiral Sir David Steel
• Allan Thomson
• Andrew Kerry Pike · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Robson
• James William Charles Moir
• KATHERINE MARIA JENKINS
• Katharine Pooley
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL PETER PEARSON CBE
• Matthew Wiles CB, CBE
• Sir GERALD HOWARTH
• The Lord GEORGE ROBERTSON

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Afghanistan · Belize · Brunei · Cyprus · Germany · Iraq · Kenya · Northern Ireland · Norway · Sierra Leone · United Arab Emirates

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BFBS.

• BFBS income £32.3m
• FORCES EMPLOYMENT CHARITY income £9.1m
• THE VETERANS' FOUNDATION income £17.3m
• VETERANS OF WAR income £10k
• CARE FOR VETERANS income £5.9m
• THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION income £168.5m

Side by side with its peers

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