VETERANS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1199584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are an armed forces charity that aims to support ex veterans with a range of issues that can arise through service in the armed forces for example assistance with finding accommodation or work. We can also signpost and aim to provide counselling sessions for things like PTSD, loss of limbs etc.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ARMED FORCES VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES, PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE UK BY PROTECTING THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVOCACY, ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT AND COUNSELLING, GRANTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £26,520 and total reserves of £90,359, strengthening its financial resilience. Per the trustees' report, the charity is in a major growth and establishment phase, having increased its staff from two to five while expanding services nationally. The trustees acknowledge risks associated with relying heavily on one-off donations and rising operational costs but confirm compliance with public benefit duties.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 34.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Birch
• Jonathan Miles
• Mathew John Gibbs

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

Operates in: 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 VETERANS AID.

• VETERANS AID income £2.2m
• VETERANS OF WAR income £10k
• VETERANS OUTREACH SUPPORT income £877k
• THE VETERANS' FOUNDATION income £17.3m
• CARE FOR VETERANS income £5.9m
• THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION - FORCES HELP income £33.2m

Side by side with its peers

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