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Registered charity · Gerrards Cross

Bfbs

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £32m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Julie Anne Wheals.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency, Recreation, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Buckinghamshire, Kent
Website
bfbs.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bfbs
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£32m£33m
  • 2024£32m£32m
  • 2023£29m£31m
Earlier years
  • 2022£29m£30m
  • 2021£28m£28m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CORPORATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF MEMBERS OF HER MAJESTY'S ARMED FORCES (WHICH EXPRESSION SHALL, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS MEMORANDUM BE DEEMED TO INCLUDE MEMBERS OF ANY NURSING OR OTHER AUXILIARY SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY'S SAID FORCES AND MEMBERS OF ANY CADET FORCE, TRAINING CORPS OR OTHER BODY HAVING AS AN OBJECT THEREOF THE TRAINING OF PERSONS FOR MEMBERSHIP OF HER MAJESTY'S SAID FORCES OR ANY NURSING OR AUXILIARY SERVICE THEREOF) THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION, WELFARE, TRAINING AND ENTERTAINMENT.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

6.4y median 7y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.4y
average years in governance
8
company-linked trustees

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

Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 10Education/training 10Recreation 10

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

Tech and media 21Professional services 6Finance 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£32.3m 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.

12.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 15.5 in 2021

291 from 246 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
233480
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29TH MARCH 1946 AS AMENDED 1ST JANUARY 1969, 25TH JULY 1978, 27TH MARCH 1979, 13TH MAY 1982, 11 DECEMBER 1998 AND 24TH JUNE 2008 as amended on 23 Jul 2020
Companies House
Company number 00407270 · Active
Contact on the register
02037504550 · info@bfbs.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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