THE SALVATION ARMY

Registered charity 214779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q137546505 · also registered in Scotland as SC009359 (OSCR)

A Christian Movement committed to putting belief into action: taking a holistic approach, engaging with physical, emotional and spiritual needs, offering services without discrimination.In addition to Christian Worship, in buildings and the open air, services include drop in centres, lunch clubs, parent and toddler groups, debt advice, youth clubs, after school clubs & emergency food parcels.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, AS PROFESSED, BELIEVED AND TAUGHT BY THE ARMY AND, PURSUANT THERETO,- THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION- THE RELIEF OF POVERTY; AND- OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS BENEFICIAL TO SOCIETY OR THE COMMUNITY OF MANKIND AS A WHOLE

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £360.5 million, with free reserves of £49 million falling within the charity's stated target range of £34.6 million to £57.5 million. The trustees report adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern. Total funds increased to £912.9 million, supported by significant legacy income and trading activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority; 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 23/05/2025, 112 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Salvation Army (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Analytical strategies for improving Third Sector employability services in the post COVID-19 recovery —
• Interactions Between People Who Use Drugs and the Police: Experiences and Impacts (INTERPRET) - APP9112 —
• The Salvation Army's overseas settlements and colonies, 1890-1939 —
• Help-seeking for substance use and mental health among justice-involved people in Scottish community contexts: An analysis of social network influence —

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £341k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: The Salvation Army UK & Ireland scores 1.8/5 from 206 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (135,983 likes) · instagram (28K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Day Concierge · Manchester M4 7DN
• Safeguarding Assistant · Hybrid work in London SE5
• Chaplain · Sheffield S9 1AT
• Community Mission Lead · Braintree CM7 2QH
• Intergenerational Mission Development Lead · Hucknall NG15 7HJ
• Assistant Support Worker · Edinburgh EH8 9UE
• Female Assistant Support Worker · Birmingham B19 3BZ
• Children & Families Development Worker · Kirkcaldy KY2 5DG

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 43.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• 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 (07/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE SALVATION ARMY TRUSTEE COMPANY · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · 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 THE SALVATION ARMY SOCIAL WORK TRUST.

• THE SALVATION ARMY SOCIAL WORK TRUST income £239.7m
• THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £81.8m
• THE LIBERTY ARMY income £25k
• THE SALVATION ARMY RETIRED OFFICERS ALLOWANCE SCHEME income £4.0m
• THE CHURCH ARMY income £7.1m
• THE PROCLAMATION TRUST income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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