THE VICTORY (SERVICES) ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 261307 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE VICTORY (SERVICES) ASSOCIATION LIMITED, THE VICTORY SERVICES CLUB

Residential Club for Servicemen and Women both serving and ex-service and their families providing accommodation,restaurants,conference,banqueting,exhibition and social events to members and others.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the financial year with a strong cash position of £4,245,922 and total unrestricted reserves of £9,432,134. Per the trustees' report, the charity generated a net surplus of £966,929 and maintains a reserves policy target of twelve months of operating costs, which it has exceeded. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00429298
• Trading subsidiary: VSC (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 03532841

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Victory (services) Association (Victory Services Club) (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• JENNINGS, Tamara, Air Vice-Marshal — director, appointed 02/07/2026on trustee list
• LISHMAN, Heather Louisa — director, appointed 02/07/2026on trustee list
• PENTREATH, Jonathan Patrick — director, appointed 02/07/2025not on trustee list
• HENDIN, Edward John Beauchamp Charles — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• TAYLOR-STAGG, Joanne Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/10/2024on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Rupert James Spencer — director, appointed 25/03/2024on trustee list
• GUNNING, Stuart — director, appointed 05/10/2023on trustee list
• HARVEY, Celia, Major General — director, appointed 27/03/2023on trustee list
• MASON, Jeffrey Sinclair, Major General — director, appointed 15/06/2022on trustee list
• CLAYTON, Petra Louise — director, appointed 28/03/2021on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Gethin Pritchard — director, appointed 23/04/2018on trustee list
• FRANCIS, Colin — secretary, appointed 03/06/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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: 14.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Air Vice-Marshal Tamara Jennings
• Edward Hendin
• Gethin Pritchard Roberts
• Heather Lishman
• Joanne Taylor-Stagg
• Katherine Gent
• Major General Celia Harvey
• Major General Jeffrey Sinclair Mason
• Petra Louise Clayton
• Rear Admiral Jonathan Pentreath CB OBE
• Rupert James Spencer Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stuart Gunning
• Tamara Jennings

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UNION JACK CLUB.

• THE UNION JACK CLUB income £12.5m
• VICTORY BIBLE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL income £2.6m
• VICTORY CHRISTIAN CENTRE (THE CHURCH) IN FELLOWSHIP WITH ASSEMBLIES OF GOD income £174k
• VETERANS AID income £2.2m
• VICTORY IN CHRIST MINISTRIES income £130k
• BOURNEMOUTH WAR MEMORIAL HOMES income £811k

Side by side with its peers

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