BOUND BY VETERANS

Registered charity 1149583 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WILTSHIRE BARN PROJECT

Supports wounded, injured and sick Veterans through therapy and training in craft bookbinding, awarding City & Guilds qualifications and providing work experience and employment opportunities.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£50k

Latest spending

£40k

Registered

2012

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £10,000 held to safeguard against unsuccessful grant bids. The charity depends primarily on sponsors and grant-making bodies for income and does not engage in public fundraising or use professional fundraisers. Principal risks identified are the loss of funding and a lack of volunteer support.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Grants (80% of income)

“Sub total (Gross income for 9,764 40,126 - 49,886 30,061”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

ALISON MARY STRACHANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
LADY SALLY ANN GREGORY
Lt Col JONATHAN POWELL
Lt Col Michael Quaile
PAUL WILSON · trustee of 1 other charity
Wendy Jane Lagden

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

Operates in: Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£50k	£40k
31/03/2024	£30k	£42k
31/03/2023	£45k	£29k
31/03/2022	£17k	£27k
31/03/2021	£25k	£10k

Common questions

Is BOUND BY VETERANS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity remains in a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £10,000 held to safeguard against unsuccessful grant bids. The charity depends primarily on sponsors and grant-making bodies for income and does not engage in public fundraising or use professional fundraisers. Principal risks identified are the loss of funding and a lack of volunteer support. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds BOUND BY VETERANS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BOUND BY VETERANS as a grant recipient include Army Benevolent Fund, THE PRINTING CHARITY, THE STATIONERS' FOUNDATION.

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

ALISON MARY STRACHAN — trustee here and at THE STATIONERS' FOUNDATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
Army Benevolent Fund	FY2025	£10k	Wellbeing
THE PRINTING CHARITY	FY2025	£9k	Education & Partnerships
THE STATIONERS' FOUNDATION	FY2024	£6k	Online bookbinding sessions for ex-Servicemen and women
THE STATIONERS' FOUNDATION	FY2025	£6k	Online bookbinding sessions for ex-Servicemen and women.
THE STATIONERS' FOUNDATION	FY2023	£6k	Bookbinding sessions
THE PRINTING CHARITY	FY2024	£2k	Education & Partnerships