SUPPORTING WOUNDED VETERANS LTD.

Registered charity 1149727 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SKIING WITH HEROES

To provide a comprehensive pathway of proven programmes including sporting events, mentoring, pain management and employment to enable UK ex-servicemen and women physically or mentally wounded to move forward, from rehabilitation to employment. It also funds and promotes innovative processes and research designed to facilitate, for its beneficiaries, the transition from military to civilian life.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF EX-SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ARMED FORCES WOUNDED, INJURED OR RENDERED SICK WHILST SERVING OR SUBSEQUENTLY BY ASSISTING THEIR REHABILITATION, QUALITY OF LIFE AND LONG-TERM WELLBEING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH: 1. THE PROVISION OF SPORTING AND ADVENTUROUS EVENTS AND INSTRUCTION; 2. MENTORING3. FINDING AND CREATING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES4. RESEARCH AIMED AT IMPROVING PAIN MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL INJURY AND 5. CO-OPERATING WITH, AND MAKING GRANTS TO, OTHER CHARITIES AND NON-PROFITS.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £36,481 for the year ended 31 July 2026, with total resources expended of £1,375,893 against incoming resources of £1,339,413. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £7,794, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining 12 months of programme expenditure, although designated funds of £733,258 were held to cover that period. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Supporting Wounded Veterans Ltd (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).

• THE ARMED FORCES COVENANT FUND TRUST — “THE ARMED FORCES COVENANT FUND TRUST” (source page)
• Big Yellow Foundation — “Big Yellow Foundation” (source page)
• Chesterfield Group Insurance — “Chesterfield Group Insurance” (source page)
• FORCES IN MIND TRUST — “FORCES IN MIND TRUST” (source page)
• GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION — “GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION” (source page)
• National lottery community fund — “National lottery community fund” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 12.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Charrington
• Lord Archibald Hamilton of Epsom
• Paul Christopher Kettlety
• Philip Luard Howell
• Simon Jeremy Walker

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED.

• WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED income £5.1m
• VETERANS AID income £2.2m
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• SUPPORT OUR MILITARY VETERANS income £28k
• CARE FOR VETERANS income £5.9m
• VETERANS OF WAR income £10k

Side by side with its peers

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