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Registered charity · Wiltshire

British Forces Foundation

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £689k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Afghanistan, Belize, Brunei, Cyprus and more
Website
www.bff.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Forces Foundation
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£689k£561k
  • 2024£276k£400k
  • 2023£402k£466k
Earlier years
  • 2022£524k£382k
  • 2021£240k£254k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES BY CHARITABLE MEANS, BY PROMOTING THE WELL-BEING AND ESPRIT DE CORPS OF ALL SERVING PERSONNEL, PRIMARILY THROUGH ENTERTAINMENT

Grants received

6 grants · £1,024,796 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Ministry of Defence · £989,796 (3 grants)
  • Veterans Foundation · £25,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000

Most recent

  • Veterans Foundation £10,0002025-11-20
  • Veterans Foundation £15,0002024-06-04
  • Ministry of Defence £329,9322019-04-01
  • Ministry of Defence £329,9322018-04-01
  • Ministry of Defence £329,9322017-04-01
Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6y median 6y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10y
average years in governance
6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Other Charitable Purposes 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 7Property 3Arts and leisure 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£689k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 12.1 in 2021

1 from 2 in 2022
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1075109
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 MARCH 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 27 FEBRUARY 2005.
Companies House
Company number 03745373 · Active
Contact on the register
01672564911 · markcann@bff.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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