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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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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

3.4y median 3.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

5
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 8Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Hospitality 5Other services 2Business services 1

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£1.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

28.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 57.9 in 2021

46 from 29 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.

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
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