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Registered charity · Essex

British Limbless EX-Service MEN's Association (Blesma)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £4.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.blesma.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Limbless EX-Service MEN's Association
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.3m£6.5m
  • 2024£6.5m£6.5m
  • 2023£5.4m£6.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.0m£6.4m
  • 2021£4.2m£5.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE AND WELL-BEING OF ALL SERVING AND EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE LOST A LIMB OR LIMBS OR ONE OR BOTH EYES AS A RESULT OF SERVICE IN ANY BRANCH OF HER MAJESTY'S FORCES OR AUXILIARY FORCES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DEFINED. 2)TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE AND WELL-BEING OF ALL THOSE SERVING AND EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SUFFER LOSS OF A LIMB, PERMANENT LOSS OF SPEECH, HEARING; OR THE LOSS OF SIGHT IN ONE OR BOTH EYES; OR THE USE OF A LIMB. 3) TO ASSIST NEEDY WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS AND NEEDY DEPENDANTS OF THE ABOVE

Grants received

18 grants · £622,696 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

  • Cabinet Office · £200,000 (2 grants)
  • Ministry of Defence · £175,935 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £125,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £81,761 (8 grants)
  • Veterans Foundation · £20,000

Most recent

  • Veterans Foundation £20,0002024-12-11
  • SHAREGIFT £10,0002024-11-12
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9282024-08-21
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002024-08-09
  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002023-02-06
Board analysis

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.

9 trustees on the board

4y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9General Charitable Purposes 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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

Other services 8Finance 2Property 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£6.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

75.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 88.9 in 2020

53 from 48 in 2020
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
1084189
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 17 OCTOBER 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 JUN 2016 as amended on 13 Jun 2021 as amended on 25 Jun 2023
Companies House
Company number 04102768 · Active
Contact on the register
02085483512 · info@blesma.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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