Registered charity · Barnstaple
The Veterans Charity
- 7 trustees
- Income £397k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Air Commodore Sonia M Phythian OBETrustee · since 2025
- General Robert John Thomson CBE DSOTrustee · since 2022
- General SIR Robert Alan Pascoe KCB MBETrustee
- Hume Richard Webb JonesTrustee · since 2021
- Iain HendersonTrustee · since 2015
- Vaughan Kent-PayneTrustee · since 2015
- William Ernest HollandTrustee · since 2022
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 and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.veteranscharity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Veterans Charity
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£397k£384k
- 2024£423k£381k
- 2023£278k£273k
Earlier years
- 2022£229k£221k
- 2021£177k£170k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(1) TO PROMOTE THE MILITARY EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES AND TO FOSTER GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A MEMORIAL OR MEMORIALS TO THOSE SERVICE PERSONNEL WHO TOOK PART IN THE OPERATION TO CAPTURE VITAL BRIDGES IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, AS A PRELUDE TO D-DAY IN JUNE 1944 AND THEREBY ENCOURAGING AND MAINTAINING PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF THE SACRIFICE MADE BY SUCH PERSONS. (2) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF THE OPERATION TO CAPTURE VITAL BRIDGES IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, AS A PRELUDE TO D-DAY IN JUNE 1944. (3) TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR SERVING AND FORMER SERVING PERSONNEL AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WHO MAY BE IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.
Grants received
8 grants · £136,000 total360Giving 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
- Veterans Foundation · £60,000 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £47,000 (4 grants)
- Ministry of Defence · £24,000
- Devon Community Foundation · £5,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Air Commodore Sonia M Phythian OBE since 2025
- General SIR Robert Alan Pascoe KCB MBE
- General Robert John Thomson CBE DSO since 2022
- Hume Richard Webb Jones since 2021
- Iain Henderson since 2015
- Vaughan Kent-Payne since 2015
- William Ernest Holland since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Iain Henderson since 2015
- Vaughan Kent-Payne since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Air Commodore Sonia M Phythian OBE since 2025
- General SIR Robert Alan Pascoe KCB MBE
- General Robert John Thomson CBE DSO since 2022
- Hume Richard Webb Jones since 2021
- Iain Henderson since 2015
- Vaughan Kent-Payne since 2015
- William Ernest Holland since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1123149
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28 JANUARY 2008 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 8 JULY 2011 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 23 JULY 2015 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12/01/2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 OCT 2015
- Companies House
- Company number 06484880 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01271371001 · contact@veteranscharity.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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