THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION - FORCES HELP

Registered charity 210760 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S S A F A FORCES HELP, SOLDIERS', SAILORS' AND AIRMEN'S FAMILIES ASSOCIATION, SSAFA, ssafa, the armed forces charity

RELIEVING THE NEED, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF THOSE SERVING OR HAVE SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS THROUGH- WELFARE ADVICE AND SUPPORT- HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE/WELFARE SERVICES- HOUSING-SPECIALIST SERVICES TO MEET UNMET NEEDS OF ARMED FORCES COMMUNITY

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS, WHO IN EACH CASE SHALL SATISFY SUCH REQUIREMENTS AS THE COUNCIL MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SPECIFY BY REGULATIONS:1. MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF ALL RANKS OF ALL BRANCHES OF OUR LAND SEA AND AIR FORCES (`BENEFICIARIES');2. ANY PERSON WHO IS DEPENDENT ON A BENEFICIARY;3. ANY PERSON WHO WAS DEPENDENT ON A BENEFICIARY WHILE THAT BENEFICIARY WAS ALIVE;4. ANY PERSON ON WHOM A BENEFICIARY IS DEPENDENT; AND5. ANY PERSON ON WHOM A DECEASED BENEFICIARY WAS DEPENDENT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £0.4 million for the year, driven by a restricted fund deficit, although unrestricted funds showed a small surplus. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds substantial unrestricted reserves of £121.6 million, representing 5.6 years of running costs, which provides significant financial resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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).

• Army Benevolent Fund — “Army Benevolent Fund awards £222,360 to SSAFA casework services” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £850k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (274,233 followers) · instagram (27K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~45.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Milner
• Charles Ness
• David Harley Athol ROWE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Angela Kathryn Holdsworth
• Edwin Keith Marriott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Pennell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lady Alexandra Walmsley
• Nick Baughan
• Pravinkumar Navekar
• SIR SIMON JOHN BOLLOM KBECBFREng
• Timothy John Seal · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Brunei · Canada · Cyprus · Falkland Islands · France · Germany · Gibraltar · Ireland · Italy · Nepal · Northern Ireland · Portugal

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 FORCES SUPPORT LIMITED.

• FORCES SUPPORT LIMITED income £2.3m
• ARMY FAMILIES FEDERATION income £1.4m
• VETERANS AID income £2.2m
• ARMED FORCES WIDOWS AND BEREAVED FAMILIES ASSOCIATION (UK) income £51k
• FORCES EMPLOYMENT CHARITY income £9.1m
• VETERANS ASSOCIATION income £986k

Side by side with its peers

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