VETERANS AID

Registered charity 1095308 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EFC, THE EX-SERVICE FELLOWSHIP CENTRES

Primarily involved in supporting homeless and vulnerable veterans who have served in the British armed forces. Services include the provision of accommodation, social work, alcohol counselling, and advocacy.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves of £1,460,829, which the trustees consider to represent an estimated nine months of operating costs. The charity reported a surplus in unrestricted funds of £134k for the year, while restricted funds showed a deficit of £139k. The trustees and auditors have confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Veterans Aid (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Hugh Milroy — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW GERARD WALLIS MBE OL DLchair
• COLONEL CHRISTOPHER DAVID MACKENZIE-BEEVOR CBE
• GILBERT HOLBOURN
• Major Jeremy David Kennard
• Major Rupert Alasdair Douglas Gibb
• Wing Commander Alex Charles South

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HELPING HOMELESS VETERANS UK.

• HELPING HOMELESS VETERANS UK income £201k
• CARE FOR VETERANS income £5.9m
• VETERANS ASSOCIATION income £986k
• THE VETERANS CHARITY income £397k
• SOLDIERS OFF THE STREET income £121k
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.