THE SALVATION ARMY RETIRED OFFICERS ALLOWANCE SCHEME

Registered charity 1153681 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE CHARITY ARE: TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF RETIRED OFFICERS OF THE SALVATION ARMY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY FUNDING PROVISION OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCES AND TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST ELDERLY RETIRED OFFICERS OF THE SALVATION ARMY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY FUNDING PROVISION OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCES.

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total funds held at year-end were £118,188,681, comprising £115,319,943 in expendable endowment funds and £2,868,738 in unrestricted funds. The unrestricted funds represent approximately six months of future budgeted grants payable, and the trustees consider 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 Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: RELIANCE BANK LIMITED Companies House 00068835
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02538134 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• General Lyndon Buckingham — General (source)
• Commissioner Edward Hill — Chief of the Staff (source)
• Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham — World President of Women's Ministries (source)
• Commissioner Shelley Hill — World Secretary for Women's Ministries (source)
• Commissioner Debbie Horwood — International Secretary for Programme Resources (source)
• Commissioner Ted Horwood — International Secretary for Programme Resources (source)
• Commissioner Andrew Morgan — International Secretary for Administration and Personnel (source)
• Commissioner Darlene Morgan — International Secretary for Administration and Personnel (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (74% 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: 11.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE COMPANY

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

Operates in: Angola · Antigua And Barbuda · Argentina · Australia · Austria · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belgium · Belize · Bermuda · Bolivia · Botswana

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SALVATION ARMY OFFICERS' PENSION FUND.

• THE SALVATION ARMY OFFICERS' PENSION FUND income £4.4m
• THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £81.8m
• THE SOLDIERS SALVATION LIMITED income £328k
• CHARITWORTH LIMITED income £3.3m
• SOLDIERS OFF THE STREET income £121k
• THE LIFE GUARDS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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