ARMY FAMILIES FEDERATION

Registered charity 1176393 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AFF · also registered in Scotland as SC048282 (OSCR)

The objects of the Charity are:1. The promotion of social inclusion and military efficiency, for the public benefit, by assisting in the prevention of Army families being disadvantaged through military service.2. Such other charitable purposes for the general benefit of Army families as the trustees from time to time think fit.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:A) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AND MILITARY EFFICIENCY, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY ASSISTING IN THE PREVENTION OF ARMY FAMILIES BEING DISADVANTAGED THROUGH MILITARY SERVICE; ANDB) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF ARMY FAMILIES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general reserves of £973,614 exceed the optimal target of £676,092, providing a buffer above the policy requirement of six months' running costs. The charity reported a net income of £21,553 for the year, with total funds carried forward reaching £1,146,482. The Trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• NAAFI Fund — “NAAFI Fund support for social projects” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Boylechair
• Dave Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Banks
• Mark Watkins
• Nicola Scarr
• Paul Collard

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

Operates in: Belgium · Canada · Cyprus · Germany · Kenya · 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 Army Benevolent Fund.

• Army Benevolent Fund income £13.7m
• ARMED FORCES WIDOWS AND BEREAVED FAMILIES ASSOCIATION (UK) income £51k
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• THE ARMY DEPENDANTS' TRUST income £2.1m
• ALLIANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £16k
• FAMILIES RELIEF income £458k

Side by side with its peers

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