ARMED FORCES PARA-SNOWSPORT TEAM

Registered charity 1142135 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AFPST, COMBINED SERVICES DISABLED SKI TEAM, CSDST

The Armed Forces Para-Snowsport Team (AFPST) (formerly the Combined Services Disabled Ski Team (CSDST)) is a charitable organisation which helps to rehabilitate those serving and retired service personnel who are Wounded, Injured or Sick (WIS), though not necessarily due to their military service, through participation in the sport of Alpine Skiing.It is run entirely by volunteers.

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN THROUGH THE ENCOURAGEMENT, SUPPORT AND PROVISION OF ADAPTIVE WINTER SPORTS ACTIVITES FOR INJURED OR DISABLED SERVICE PERSONNEL. 2. THE RELIEF IN NEED, AND PROMOTION OF HEALTHY RECREATION, OF INJURED OR DISABLED FORMER SERVICE PERSONNEL THROUGH THE ENCOURAGEMENT, SUPPORT AND PROVISION OF ADAPTIVE WINTER SPORTS ACTIVITIES.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of a deficit of £11,106 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by expenditure exceeding income. However, unrestricted funds remained at £438,302, which is in excess of the trustees' stated policy target of four months' unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 11/04/2024, 42 days after the 29/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07646099

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ARMED FORCES PARA-SNOWSPORT TEAM (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ARNOLD, Jessica — director, appointed 16/02/2026on trustee list
• WITCHELL, Maria Frances — director, appointed 16/02/2026on trustee list
• CONNELLY, John — director, appointed 13/07/2025on trustee list
• NETHERCOTT, Jayne Emma — director, appointed 13/07/2025on trustee list
• ALLEN, William Hugh Wadham — director, appointed 13/07/2025on trustee list
• GALLAGHER, Benjamin Simon — director, appointed 13/07/2025not on trustee list
• TOZER, David John, Air Commodore — director, appointed 26/11/2023on trustee list
• HAY, Graeme Mackenzie — director, appointed 11/07/2022on trustee list
• GARNER, Andrew Stuart, Brigadier — director, appointed 10/01/2021on trustee list
• PULLAN, Mark, Major General — director, appointed 19/03/2018on trustee list
• WINFIELD, Elizabeth — director, appointed 19/03/2018not on trustee list
• AHRENS, Jill Denise — director, appointed 19/03/2018on trustee list
• COX, Andrew David, Brigadier — director, appointed 30/09/2015not on trustee list
• REED SMITH CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 24/05/2011

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MAJOR GENERAL MARK PULLANchair
• Ben Gallagher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brigadier Andrew David Cox MBE
• Brigadier Andrew Stuart Garner
• David John Tozer
• Graeme Mackenzie Hay
• Jayne Nethercott
• Jessica Arnold
• Jill Denise Ahrens
• John Connelly
• Liz Winfield · trustee of 3 other charities
• Maria Frances Witchell · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Allen

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK ARMED FORCES WINTER SPORTS ASSOCIATION.

• UK ARMED FORCES WINTER SPORTS ASSOCIATION income £584k
• ARMY WINTER SPORTS ASSOCIATION income £689k
• THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION - FORCES HELP income £33.2m

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