HELP A SQUADDIE

Registered charity 1182523 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We help Veterans get back on their by providing homeless Veterans a stable home at The Russell Aston Home For Veterans and provide any further support they may need.

Objects

TO RELIEVE EX-MILITARY SERVICES PERSONNEL AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL HEALTH OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING A DROP IN FACILITY AND OTHER SERVICES TO MEET THEIR NEEDS AND CAPABILITIES AND HELP THEM ADAPT TO LIFE OUTSIDE THE ARMED FORCES.

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 · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £20,000, which is below its stated policy target of £30,000. The trustees confirmed the charity is financially stable and identified no material uncertainties regarding its 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 independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Investment
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stuart Urquhartchair
• Craig Barrington
• MR A FESSEY
• Mike Aston Mr
• Patrick Ryan Mr

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VETERANS AID.

• VETERANS AID income £2.2m
• HELPING HOMELESS VETERANS UK income £201k
• THE VETERANS CHARITY income £397k
• VETERANS ASSOCIATION income £986k
• SOLDIERS OFF THE STREET income £121k
• VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON HOMES FOR DISADVANTAGED EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL CIO income £114k

Side by side with its peers

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