Army Benevolent Fund — grant history

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listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2026 accounts

FY2025: 3 grants totalling £2.1m are listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (grantee names (or the pattern of amounts) not found in the accounts text).

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

• How to apply: The Army Benevolent Fund does not accept direct applications. Applications must be submitted through the Soldier’s Unit Welfare Officer or the Veteran’s Regimental or Corp Association via the relevant caseworking office detailed above.

Summarised from www.soldierscharity.org · www.soldierscharity.org/need-our-help/individual-grants/ · www.soldierscharity.org/need-our-help/charity-grants/ on 16/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

• STEP TOGETHER VOLUNTEERING “FUNDERS: Army Benevolent Fund”
• TURN TO STARBOARD “Army Benevolent Fund”
• BOURNEMOUTH WAR MEMORIAL HOMES “in recent times have received grants from that ABF The Soldiers Charity”
• THE GWENNILI TRUST “Team Forces, The Veterans’ Foundation, the Army Benevolent Fund and the Army Central Fund”
• VETERANS INTO LOGISTICS “The Army Benevolent Fund is the national charity of the British Army, providing a lifetime of support to soldiers, veter”
• AF&V LAUNCHPAD LIMITED “ABF The Soldiers’ Charity National charity of the British Army, providing a lifetime of support to soldiers, veterans an”
• FAB (FAMILIES' ACTIVITY BREAKS) “Sponsors Army Benevolent Fund As the Army’s national charity, the ABF aim to provide soldiers and veterans with the mean”
• THE RIPPLE POND “The Army Benevolent Fund is the Army’s national charity. They provide support for soldiers, past and present, and their ”
• READING FORCE “The national army charity has been a supporter of Reading Force since 2014”
• HAIG HOUSING TRUST “Army Benevolent Fund Awards a Further £150,000 Grant to Haig Housing for Veterans’ Home Refurbishments”
• THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION - FORCES HELP “Army Benevolent Fund awards £222,360 to SSAFA casework services”
• THE SIR OSWALD STOLL FOUNDATION “We would like to thank all our partners for enabling us to offer a wide range of housing and support services to veteran”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

What changed: FY2025 → FY2026

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 4509000 vs reference 4544000 (0.8% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the filed accounts. They stay in the list and the CSV (read_status column) but are left out of the totals, counts and recipient tallies this site computes.