COMBINED CADET FORCE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1170994 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CCFA, Cadets in Schools · also registered in Scotland as SC048021 (OSCR)

To: act as an adviser to the MoD and HMG on CCF matters; act as a source of information and advice for Contingent Commanders and CCF Officers; promote the CCF; provide financial grants to CCF cadets to assist their development; and, provide financial grants to CCF Contingents in order to help them establish or become more sustainable.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £416,460 for the year, resulting in free unrestricted reserves of £868,508. The trustees confirm that these reserves are within the stated policy target of three to six months of operating costs. The auditor has confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Combined Cadet Force Association (CCFA) (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel David Alan Maddox CBEchair
• Alexander Edward Hudson
• Caroline Jane Hutton-Stott
• Christopher Roberts
• Edward Hayton
• Ian Cohen
• James Newton
• Marc Pether
• Michael Hampshire
• Simon Blackmore
• Simon John McMenemy VR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Robinson
• Susan Elizabeth Bonell OBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Army Cadet Charitable Trust UK.

• Army Cadet Charitable Trust UK income £6.0m
• Air Cadet Charity CIO income £1.1m
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.3m
• THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S CORPS ASSOCIATION income £1.0m
• ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION income £1.7m
• ROYAL AIR FORCE SMALL ARMS ASSOCIATION income £216k

Side by side with its peers

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