SURREY RIFLE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 211885 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Surrey Rifle Association is a registered charity whose objects are to advance the skill of marksmanship for its members.

Objects

THE TEACHING AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ART OF MARKSMANSHIP THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY OF SURREY, PARTICULARLY IN THE TERRITORIALS AND CADET FORCES.

Area of benefit: SURREY

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: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating loss of £16,638 for the year ended 31 October 2025, which reduced the general reserve to £87,616. Despite the loss, the trustees consider the cash balances sufficient for clubhouse maintenance and improvement projects, and the going concern basis remains appropriate.

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 3 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2023 (received 01/09/2024, 1 day after the 31/08/2024 due date); year ending 31/10/2021 (received 20/09/2022, 20 days after the 31/08/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID CRISPIN
• John Edward Michael Bellringer
• Peter John Chance

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

• NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION income £11.6m
• ARMY RIFLE ASSOCIATION income £183k
• THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH RIFLE CLUB income £66k
• SOUTHERN COUNTIES ARCHERY SOCIETY income £35k
• SURREY CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND LIMITED income £40k
• SHIRLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £200k

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