THE SPECIAL AIR SERVICE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 254393 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S A S R A

To promote the efficiency of the regiment and provide welfare in various forms, medical, training and relocation assistance, together with the organisation of reunions and communications with members.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REGIMENT BY:MAINTAINING CONTACT BETWEEN SERVING AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT AND PROVIDING FOR SOCIAL GATHERINGS FOR THEM; FOSTERING ESPRIT DE CORPS, COMRADESHIP AND THE WELFARE OF THE REGIMENT AND PERPETUATING ITS DEEDS AND PRESERVING ITS TRADITIONS; PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A MEMORIAL OR MEMORIALS TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT WHO HAVE DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY; PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A BURIAL GROUND FOR THE REGIMENT; ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT; PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT BY THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO ENABLE SUCH PERSONS TO PREPARE FOR OR TO ASSIST THEIR RE-ENTRY INTO CIVILIAN LIFE.TO RELIEVE MEMBERS OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT OR THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF HARDSHIP, SICKNESS, OLD AGE BY; MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY TO THEM; OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR GOODS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES FOR THEM INCLUDING EDUCATION OR TRAINING; OR MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY TO OTHER PERSONS OR BODIES WHO PROVIDE GOODS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES TO THOSE IN NEED.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £11,021,368, which exceed the £3,650,000 designated endowment funds. Per the trustees' report, the charity has sufficient resources to continue for the foreseeable future and is prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SPECIAL AIR SERVICE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~78.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION.

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Side by side with its peers

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