THE VETERANS CHARITY

Registered charity 1123149 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PROJECT 65

SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE SERVED IN HER MAJESTY'S ARMED FORCES THROUGH DIRECT PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, ADVICE OR GENERAL SUPPORT.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE MILITARY EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES AND TO FOSTER GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A MEMORIAL OR MEMORIALS TO THOSE SERVICE PERSONNEL WHO TOOK PART IN THE OPERATION TO CAPTURE VITAL BRIDGES IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, AS A PRELUDE TO D-DAY IN JUNE 1944 AND THEREBY ENCOURAGING AND MAINTAINING PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF THE SACRIFICE MADE BY SUCH PERSONS. (2) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF THE OPERATION TO CAPTURE VITAL BRIDGES IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, AS A PRELUDE TO D-DAY IN JUNE 1944. (3) TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR SERVING AND FORMER SERVING PERSONNEL AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WHO MAY BE IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net incoming resource of £33,411 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total net assets of £157,582. The Trustees report that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity operates with no paid employees and no trustee remuneration, relying instead on volunteers and donations to fund its welfare support activities.

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 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 Veterans Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• One Lottery — “Every Saturday, One Lottery holds a draw. Match all six numbers and scoop the £25,000 jackpot!” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Air Commodore Sonia M Phythian OBE
• GENERAL SIR ROBERT ALAN PASCOE KCB MBE
• General Robert John Thomson CBE DSO
• Hume Richard Webb Jones
• IAIN HENDERSON
• VAUGHAN KENT-PAYNE
• William Ernest Holland

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

Operates in: 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 VETERANS OF WAR.

• VETERANS OF WAR income £10k
• VETERANS AID income £2.2m
• HEREFORDSHIRE VETERANS SUPPORT CENTRE income £162k
• SOLDIERS OFF THE STREET income £121k
• THE VETERANS' FOUNDATION income £17.3m
• ROYAL BRITISH VETERANS ENTERPRISE LTD. income £24.4m

Side by side with its peers

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