The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Veterans AID

Registered charity 1095308 Registered since 2003

Operates: Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales

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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.

6.3y median 4.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure
17.1y
average years in governance
3
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

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 4Arts and leisure 1Professional services 1

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  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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£2.2m 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.

9.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

25 from 23 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.veterans-aid.net
Emailinfo@veterans-aid.net
Phone02078282468
AddressVETERANS AID, 27 Victoria Square, LONDON, SW1W 0RB

Finances

£2,194,078 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,923,176£1,807,647
2022£1,614,055£1,871,332
2023£1,916,088£1,993,866
2024£2,317,607£2,112,486
2025£2,194,078£2,223,592

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAccommodation/housingOther Charitable Purposes

Who

Elderly/old PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsProvides Other FinanceProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

4 The charity’s objects (“Objects”) are specifically restricted to relieving distress among Ex-Service men and women of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army, Royal Air Force and Merchant Service and their widow, widower. civil partner, parent, child, brother, sister, grandparent or grandchild who, at the time of application for assistance, are unemployed, homeless or for some reasonable cause in need.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 SEPTEMBER 2002. as amended on 10 Dec 2024 as amended on 16 May 2025

Trustees (6)

6trustees
76median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Veterans AID · 04544532 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 25/09/2002

4 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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