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Registered charity (CIO) · Staffordshire

Help A Squaddie

Help A Squaddie is a registered charity (number 1182523) based in Staffordshire, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Stuart Urquhart since 2025. Latest income £178k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £178k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Derbyshire, Staffordshire
Website
helpasquaddie.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£178k£87k
  • 2024£97k£85k
  • 2023£387k£377k
Earlier years
  • 2022£77k£56k
  • 2021£37k£29k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE EX-MILITARY SERVICES PERSONNEL AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL HEALTH OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING A DROP IN FACILITY AND OTHER SERVICES TO MEET THEIR NEEDS AND CAPABILITIES AND HELP THEM ADAPT TO LIFE OUTSIDE THE ARMED FORCES.

Grants received

11 grants · £531,100 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £398,400 (6 grants)
  • Postcode Community Trust · £100,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £10,000
  • Ministry of Defence · £9,500
  • Crowdfunder · £7,100

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002025-07-10
  • Postcode Community Trust £100,0002025-03-07
  • Crowdfunder £7,1002022-07-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-07-01
  • Sport England £6,1002022-05-24
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.

5 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

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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 5Disability 5General Charitable Purposes 5

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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£178k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1182523
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 18 Mar 2019
Contact on the register
03003651332 · admin@helpasquaddie.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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