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.

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

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.

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GUARDS' CHAPEL TRUST.

• GUARDS' CHAPEL TRUST income £398k
• THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION - FORCES HELP income £33.2m
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• THE ARMED FORCES EQUINE CHARITY income £1.6m
• BOURNEMOUTH WAR MEMORIAL HOMES income £811k
• THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT CHARITY income £403k

Side by side with its peers

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