TEAM FORCES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1144004 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TEAM ARMY SPORTS FOUNDATION

The purpose of the charity is to help fund sport, challenge and adventure. It makes grants to a wide variety of individual and group recipients across the armed forces community. It raises money from donations and by conducting fund raising events that showcase Forces sport.

Objects

1. To promote the efficiency of the armed forces of the Crown, including veterans, by suchcharitable means as Trustees think fit including (but not limited to):1.1 improving physical fitness and mental wellbeing, fostering esprit de corps,promoting diversity and inclusion and raising morale of serving armed forcespersonnel, and their families, including reserves and cadets, and former armedforces personnel by encouraging participation in sports and adventurous activitiesand providing assistance in the provision of sporting facilities, and1.2 the relief of serving or former armed forces personnel and their dependantsand/or families who are in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability,financial hardship or other disadvantage.

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 reported a net income of £401,149 for the year ended 30 November 2025, resulting in total reserves of £1,096,996. The trustees consider the charity to be a strong going concern, supported by a surplus of income over expenditure and an invested reserve. The primary funding source is Team Forces Funding Limited, which presents a major risk if the trading partner ceases to trade.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 30/11/2023 (received 04/10/2024, 4 days after the 30/09/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Agon — “Team Forces is delighted to welcome Agon as a new Silver Sponsor, marking the start of an exciting partnership dedicated to supporting the A…” (source page)
• Palo Alto Networks — “Team Forces is proud to announce that global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks has renewed its Platinum Sponsorship for another year” (source page)
• Research Innovations Incorporated (RII) — “Team Forces is delighted to celebrate the renewed support of Research Innovations Incorporated (RII) as a Bronze Partner, continuing a value…” (source page)
• Llanelec Precision Engineering — “Team Forces is delighted to welcome Llanelec Precision Engineering as a sponsor, strengthening our shared commitment to supporting the Armed…” (source page)
• Exponential-e — “Team Forces is delighted to celebrate the renewed support of Exponential-e as a Bronze Partner, continuing a valued relationship dedicated t…” (source page)
• Telent — “Team Forces is excited to announce that Telent has increased its support to become our newest Gold Sponsor, strengthening an important partn…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maj Gen Elizabeth Jane Faithfull-Davieschair
• Brigadier Richard William Dennis OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Lee Bates
• GRAHAM BEAL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Harpreet Kaur Chandi
• Maj Gen Jonathan James Cole
• Maj Gen Neil David Sexton CB
• Robin John Anderton-Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Scott Wallace

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• TEAM ENDEAVOUR income £29k
• FORCES SUPPORT LIMITED income £2.3m
• FORCES CHILDREN'S TRUST income £83k
• TEAM BATH ATHLETIC CLUB income £161k
• ARMY FAMILIES FEDERATION income £1.4m
• TEAMS4U THE CHARITY income £414k

Side by side with its peers

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