CHURCH OF ENGLAND SOLDIERS', SAILORS' & AIRMEN'S CLUBS

Registered charity 226684 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C E S S A C, CHURCH OF ENGLAND SOLDIERS' SAILORS' & AIRMEN'S CLUBS, CHURCH OF ENGLAND SOLDIERS' SAILORS' AND AIRMEN'S CLUBS

To support the moral component of HM Armed Forces, particularly through the operation of amenity centres in or near military bases in the UK and overseas. To support veteran Armed Forces personnel and their dependants, usually through sheltered housing. To support the CofE in the delivery of its spiritual and charitable objectives across Defence.

Objects

TO OPEN, CARRY ON, ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN CHURCH OF ENGLAND SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND AIRMENS CLUBS. TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO HAVE SERVED IN HER MAJESTY'S FORCES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF HOUSING. TO FURTHER THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AMONGST THOSE SERVING IN HER MAJESTY'S FORCES.

Area of benefit: GREAT BRITAIN AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £3,013,540, which comfortably exceeds the stated policy target of £650,000 (equivalent to six months of expenditure). Although the charity reported a net operating deficit of £202,999, the overall financial position remained broadly stable due to positive investment performance and strong reserve levels.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £42,009 (FY2024) to £40,013 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00034118 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joe Petty — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Nick Fletcher — Chair of Board of Trustees & Directors (source)
• Gill Peckham — Director of Housing (source)
• Sarah Gittins — Director of Operations (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DAVIES, Allan — director, appointed 19/11/2025on trustee list
• FLETCHER, Nicholas Edgar, Captain (Retd) — director, appointed 10/09/2025on trustee list
• SARD, Alexandra — director, appointed 22/11/2023not on trustee list
• GRINDELL, Margaret (K/A Greta) — director, appointed 22/06/2022not on trustee list
• RICE, Steven David, Non-Executive Director — director, appointed 02/02/2022on trustee list
• FOSTER, David John — director, appointed 20/11/2019not on trustee list
• SNOWBALL, Simon John — director, appointed 30/04/2019on trustee list
• PETTY, Joseph Patrick — secretary, appointed 26/09/2024

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~28.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Captain Nicholas Edgar Fletcherchair
• Alexandra Sard MBE
• Allan Davies
• Andrew Joseph Cobb
• Commander Simon John Snowball
• David John Foster FCA
• Margaret Grindell MSc
• Steven David Rice

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Dorset · Essex · Greenwich · Hampshire · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

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 CHURCH OF ENGLAND CENTRAL SERVICES.

• CHURCH OF ENGLAND CENTRAL SERVICES income £140.1m
• THE ENGLISH CLERGY ASSOCIATION BENEFIT FUND income £46k
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• CHURCH SOCIETY income £301k
• THE ELDWICK CHURCH income £179k
• KINGSLAND CHURCH COLCHESTER income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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