THE SOLDIERS' AND AVIATORS' SCRIPTURE READERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 235708 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S A S R A, SOLDIERS' AND AIRMEN'S SCRIPTURE READERS ASSOCIATION · also registered in Scotland as SC039130 (OSCR)

Spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ among the personnel in the British Army and Royal Air Force. Encouragement of Christians in the British Army and Royal Air Force to grow in their faith.

Objects

4.1 The objects for which the Charity is established are, for the public benefit:(a) to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Basis of Belief; and (b) to promote the social, moral and spiritual welfare of the personnel of HM Forces, so far as this is consistent with the first object abovein particular, but not exclusively by, in any part of the world:(i) introducing servicemen and women to a practical experience of the Christian faith in support of the moral component of fighting power and their adherence to the Values & Standards of the British military;(ii) befriending servicemen and women with a view to supporting their spiritual welfare;(iii) encouraging serving Christians to witness to their colleagues by their manner of life and their spoken testimony;(iv) encouraging and facilitating regular individual and corporate Bible study and the formation of interdenominational fellowship gatherings;(v) holding talks, addresses and other events with a Bible focus;(vi) providing pastoral support for servicemen and women, where appropriate signposting them to support, medical and other welfare services; and(vii) providing social facilities for servicemen and women through which these activities may be undertaken.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a metadata log for an electronic signature envelope and does not contain financial statements, trustee reports, or any accounting data. Consequently, no information regarding financial health, reserves, or operational metrics is available for analysis.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00329268

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Martin Gliniecki — Executive Director (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.

• MADDAN, James Humphrey — director, appointed 16/10/2024on trustee list
• ELLISON, David Bruce Edward — director, appointed 22/08/2022on trustee list
• HEATH, Daniel — director, appointed 29/01/2021on trustee list
• PRYOR, Stephen Richard — director, appointed 25/01/2020on trustee list
• WOOLDRIDGE, John Patrick Mark — director, appointed 27/04/2016on trustee list
• CLAYDON, Michael, Major — director, appointed 24/04/2013on trustee list
• MASSEY, Amy Catherine, Major — director, appointed 18/07/2012not on trustee list
• GREENALD, Jonathan, Flt Lt — director, appointed 25/04/2012on trustee list
• ALLEN, John Charles, Dr — director, appointed 03/08/2000not on trustee list
• KIRKE, Charles Mackenzie St George — director, appointed 24/04/1996on trustee list
• LEWIS, John William, Col. — director, appointed 26/04/1995on trustee list
• SHANNON, Philip David, Major — director, appointed 26/10/1994not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £625k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~45.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLONEL JOHN WILLIAM LEWISchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CAPT A MCLEOD
• CAPT JOHN PATRICK MARK WOOLDRIDGE
• COL CHRISTOPHER ROBERT RIDER CBE
• Daniel Heath
• David Ellison
• FLT LT J GREENALD
• JOHN CHARLES ALLEN FRCS
• James Humphrey Maddan
• LT COL CHARLES MACKENZIE ST GEORGE KIRKE
• MAJOR MICHAEL CLAYDON
• MAJOR PHIL SHANNON MBE
• Stephen Richard Pryor

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

Operates in: Germany · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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Side by side with its peers

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