Registered charity · Portsmouth
Church of England Soldiers', Sailors' & Airmen's Clubs
- 8 trustees
- Income £1.1m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Captain Nicholas Edgar FletcherChair · since 2025
- Alexandra Sard MBETrustee · since 2023
- Allan DaviesTrustee · since 2025
- Andrew Joseph CobbTrustee · since 2026
- Commander Simon John SnowballTrustee · since 2019
- David John Foster FCATrustee · since 2019
- Margaret Grindell MScTrustee · since 2022
- Steven David RiceTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Accommodation/housing, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
- Where
- Greenwich, Cornwall, Dorset, Hampshire and more
- Website
- www.cessaha.co.uk/cessac (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Church of England Soldiers, Sailors & Airmens Clubs
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.1m£1.3m
- 2024£1.0m£1.3m
- 2023£1.0m£1.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£932k£1.1m
- 2021£670k£785k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO OPEN, CARRY ON, ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN CHURCH OF ENGLAND SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND AIRMENS CLUBS. TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO HAVE SERVED IN HER MAJESTY'S FORCES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF HOUSING. TO FURTHER THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AMONGST THOSE SERVING IN HER MAJESTY'S FORCES.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Captain Nicholas Edgar Fletcher Chair since 2025
- Alexandra Sard MBE since 2023
- Allan Davies since 2025
- Andrew Joseph Cobb since 2026
- Commander Simon John Snowball since 2019
- David John Foster FCA since 2019
- Margaret Grindell MSc since 2022
- Steven David Rice since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Commander Simon John Snowball since 2019
- David John Foster FCA since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Captain Nicholas Edgar Fletcher Chair since 2025
- Alexandra Sard MBE since 2023
- Allan Davies since 2025
- Andrew Joseph Cobb since 2026
- Commander Simon John Snowball since 2019
- David John Foster FCA since 2019
- Margaret Grindell MSc since 2022
- Steven David Rice 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.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
28.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 57.9 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 226684
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29 MAY 1897AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 JUL 1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 SEP 1901AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 NOV 1996 as amended on 21 Jun 2023
- Companies House
- Company number 00034118 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02392 829319 · JOSEPH.PETTY@CESSAHA.CO.UK
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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