Registered charity · West Sussex

Fire Fighters Charity

15 trustees
Income £11m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 2 more
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle Of Man
Website: www.firefighterscharity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Fire Fighters Charity
Registered: 2002

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£11m£12m
2024£10m£12m
2023£9.6m£12m

Earlier years

2022£9.6m£9.8m
2021£8.3m£8.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The Objects of the Charity are (1) such charitable purposes as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion determine (including, without limitation, the relief of poverty; the advancement of health or the saving of lives) for those persons having a direct or indirect association with the fire services community (‘the beneficiary class’) as defined in the Charity’s rules and (2) the relief of Burns survivors by the provision only of rehabilitation, and advisory services as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion determine.

Grants received

8 grants · £1,645,729 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

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £762,684
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £653,578
The Wimbledon Foundation · £200,000 (4 grants)
The National Lottery Community Fund · £19,467
SHAREGIFT · £10,000

Most recent

The Wimbledon Foundation £50,0002025-06-13
The National Lottery Community Fund £19,4672024-10-25
SHAREGIFT £10,0002024-06-21
The Wimbledon Foundation £50,0002023-07-28
The Wimbledon Foundation £50,0002023-07-17

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.

15 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

John Martin Baines Chair since 2018
George Howat Wood since 2018
Neil Gibbins since 2018
Simon Gerald Routh-Jones since 2018

11.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (2)

Aidan Patrick Jennings since 2025
Simon Gerald Routh-Jones since 2018

company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 15General Charitable Purposes 15The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14Other Charitable Purposes 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.

Other services 18Arts and leisure 4Public administration 4

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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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£11.2m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

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.

34.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.8 in 2021

211 from 190 in 2021

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: 1093387
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/07/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/10/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/11/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/11/2009NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 29/11/2012AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25/04/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/05/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/03/2015 AS AMENDED ON 08 NOV 2018 AS AMENDED ON 21 NOV 2024 AS AMENDED ON 10 NOV 2025AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 NOV 2025
Companies House: Company number 04480058 · Active
Contact on the register: 01256 366566 · administration@firefighterscharity.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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