THE NOT FORGOTTEN ASSOCIATION (NFA)

Registered charity 1150541 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NFA

The charity acts for the benefit of service and ex-service personnel with disabilities, or who are wounded, by organising, or providing items for, leisure e.g. TVs and licences, and recreational activities, travel, holidays and outings

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECT IS RESTRICTED TO ACT GENERALLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF SERVICE AND EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL WITH DISABILITIES OR WHO ARE WOUNDED, INCLUDING THE ORGANISATION OF, OR PROVISION OF ITEMS OR FACILITIES FOR, LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, TRAVEL, HOLIDAYS AND OUTINGS.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net expenditure of £215,248 for the year, supported by a planned drawdown of £200,000 from investment reserves. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £42,799, which is below the stated policy target of £150,000 for core operating cash reserves. The trustees confirmed that reserves are strong enough to meet needs in the near term despite the deficit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Alliotts LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08302965

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.

• STRINGER, Matthew Jackson — director, appointed 31/08/2026on trustee list
• BOSSI, Dino Luigi — director, appointed 31/08/2026on trustee list
• LEACH, Robert Charles — director, appointed 11/02/2025on trustee list
• CRANFIELD, Richard William Lionel — director, appointed 30/12/2024on trustee list
• SANDALL, Nicholas John — director, appointed 30/12/2024on trustee list
• STOKES OBE MVO DL, Andrew John — director, appointed 01/11/2024not on trustee list
• GIBBARD, Lisa Jane — director, appointed 22/10/2019on trustee list
• POST, Simon Norman — director, appointed 22/10/2019on trustee list
• NEEL, Stephen William George — director, appointed 02/10/2018on trustee list
• BOTTERILL, Paul — director, appointed 21/05/2017on trustee list
• GROSS, Jacqueline Lesley — director, appointed 16/02/2016not on trustee list
• GOBLE, Catherine Mary, Dr — director, appointed 27/10/2015on trustee list
• NICHOLLS, Mark William — director, appointed 21/11/2012on trustee list
• ARCHER, Jeremy Michael — director, appointed 21/11/2012not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Stokes OBE MVO DL
• David Jonathan Clarkson
• Dino Luigi Bossi
• Dr CATHERINE MARY GOBLE
• JEREMY MICHAEL ARCHER MA · trustee of 3 other charities
• Jaqueline Gross · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Jane Gibbard
• MARK NICHOLLS
• Matthew Jackson Stringer
• Nicholas John SAndall
• PAUL BOTTERILL
• Richard William Lionel Cranfield · trustee of 3 other charities
• Robert Leach
• Sebastian Mackenzie-Wilson
• Simon Norman Post
• Stephen William George Neel

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

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

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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