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Registered charity · London

The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association - Forces Help

The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association - Forces Help is a registered charity (number 210760) based in London, governed by 11 trustees. Latest income £33m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Ssafa, S S A F A Forces Help, ssafa, the armed forces charity (Charity Commission)

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £33m (2025)
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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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus and more
Website
www.ssafa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£33m£34m
  • 2024£106m£34m
  • 2023£34m£35m
Earlier years
  • 2022£33m£34m
  • 2021£40m£30m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 17% · Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS, WHO IN EACH CASE SHALL SATISFY SUCH REQUIREMENTS AS THE COUNCIL MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SPECIFY BY REGULATIONS:1. MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF ALL RANKS OF ALL BRANCHES OF OUR LAND SEA AND AIR FORCES (`BENEFICIARIES');2. ANY PERSON WHO IS DEPENDENT ON A BENEFICIARY;3. ANY PERSON WHO WAS DEPENDENT ON A BENEFICIARY WHILE THAT BENEFICIARY WAS ALIVE;4. ANY PERSON ON WHOM A BENEFICIARY IS DEPENDENT; AND5. ANY PERSON ON WHOM A DECEASED BENEFICIARY WAS DEPENDENT.

Grants received

125 grants · £3,043,260 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

  • Ministry of Defence · £1,443,875 (24 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £643,432 (31 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £500,000
  • City Bridge Trust · £183,600 (3 grants)
  • Somerset Community Foundation · £55,350 (5 grants)

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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.

11 trustees on the board

4.9y median 4y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (4)

4
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10Accommodation/housing 9Amateur Sport 1Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 1Education/training 1General 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.

Health and social care 7Other services 4Arts and leisure 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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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£105.8m 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.

40.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 12.5 in 2020

384 from 354 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.
6%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
210760
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 26 JANUARY 1926 AS VARIED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 23 JUNE 1982, BY ORDERS IN COUNCIL DATED 27 OCTOBER 1993, 13 MARCH 1996, 19 DECEMBER 1996 AND 11 DECEMBER 2013. REVISED CHARTER DATED 1 JANUARY 2014.
Contact on the register
0800 260 6780 · simon.blum@ssafa.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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