Registered charity · Lincolnshire

The British Fire Services Association

13 trustees
Income £58k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website: www.bfsa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The British Fire Services Association
Registered: 1988

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£58k£20k
2024£18k£16k
2023£21k£19k

Earlier years

2022£22k£21k
2021£22k£21k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ENCOURAGE THE THEORETICAL INSTRUCTION AND PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF FIRE PREVENTION, EXTINCTION AND FIRST AID TO THE INJURED BY PROVIDING A CENTRAL ORGANISATION FOR FIRE BRIGADES AND SALVAGE CORPORATIONS, AND GERNERALLY TO DO ALL SUCH THINGS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE NECESSARY TO ELEVATE THE STATUS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

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.

13 trustees on the board

5.4y median 7y

average tenure

15y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Paul Basson Chair since 2019
John Watson since 2019
Matt Stokes since 2019
Richard Lovelace since 2011
Seamus Higgins since 2019

12.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

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 13Education/training 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13

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

Other services 11Manufacturing 9Professional services 3

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£18k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 298065
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15TH APRIL 1912 AS AMENDED 7TH SEPTEMBER 1987
Companies House: Company number 00121413 · Active
Contact on the register: 07745585082 · generalsecretary@bfsa.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 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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