FORCES SUPPORT LIMITED

Registered charity 1157531 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC046146 (OSCR)

Provide relief and support to families of service personnel killed while serving in the Armed Forces by partnering with and funding UK Service Charities. Fund projects that support Families/Veterans who are experiencing financial hardship, housing issues, poor mental and or physical health. Fund projects to assist Veterans to secure employment and new skills through education and or training.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO CARRY ON ACTIVITIES WITH THE AIM OF PROVIDING FOR:2.1.1 THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS OF SERVICE PERSONNEL KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.2.1.2 THE RELIEF OF FORMER SERVICE PERSONNEL, THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN NEED THROUGH FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE BY THE PROVISION OF HOUSING AND OTHER FORMS OF CHARITABLE SUPPORT.

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 · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £65,753 for the year ended 31st March 2025, primarily driven by other trading activities. The charity holds net funds of £2,284,874 at year-end, providing a significant cash buffer. However, the document does not disclose a specific reserves policy or target against which to measure financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07192349

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.

• ROWLANDS-SMITH, Nichola — director, appointed 09/08/2025on trustee list
• CANDLISH, Gary Gordon — director, appointed 07/08/2025not on trustee list
• MURPHY, Philip Michael — director, appointed 23/05/2024on trustee list
• MORRIS, Toby Jacob — director, appointed 21/05/2020on trustee list
• LOCKE, Claire Louise — director, appointed 01/03/2018on trustee list
• MATHEWS, Grace — director, appointed 25/04/2017on trustee list
• SPURS, Ronald Norman — director, appointed 18/11/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £807k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (95% 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: 75.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ronald Spurschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Locke
• Grace Mathews · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nichola Rowlands-Smith
• Philip Murphy
• TOBY MORRIS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION - FORCES HELP.

• THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION - FORCES HELP income £33.2m
• FORCES EMPLOYMENT CHARITY income £9.1m
• FORCES CHILDREN'S TRUST income £83k
• TEAM FORCES FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT income £255k

Side by side with its peers

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