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

A Registered Charity based in England

Active Registered Charity (Scotland) Cross Border Charity Statutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)

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GB-SC-SC038056

This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 3 inactive records, from 2 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-210760 .
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GB-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC038056 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

Description

The Object for which SSAFA is established and incorporated is 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: 3.1 members and former members of all ranks of all branches of Our Land Sea and Air Forces (‘Beneficiaries’). 3.2 any person who is dependent on a Beneficiary. 3.3 any person who was dependent on a Beneficiary while that Beneficiary was alive. 3.4 any person on whom a Beneficiary is dependent. and 3.5 any person on whom a deceased Beneficiary was dependent.

Also known as

  • SSAFA Forces Help

OSCR Charity number

SC038056

Registered

Postcode

EC3R 8AD

Website

ssafa.org.uk

Latest income

£33,035,000 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download published by Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.

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Locations

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Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.

Registered Office in the UK

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Linked records

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This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 3 inactive records, from 2 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-210760 .
What is an organisation identifier?

An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.

Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.

Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.

Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.

GB-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC038056 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Families Association - Forces Help (this record)

Organisation record from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator
Last updated 2024-05-02

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Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

Activities (OSCR)

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Beneficiaries (OSCR)

  • Other defined groups

Purposes (OSCR)

  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Other individual and family services D19

UK Charity Activity Tags

These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.

Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.

  • Armed forces AF » Army AF101
  • Associations AS
  • Beneficiary group BE » Families BE103

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Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
2007-04-05 Registered as a charity
2017-12-31 47,431,000 46,554,000
2018-12-31 47,359,000 46,418,000
2019-12-31 44,685,000 44,931,000
2020-12-31 34,479,000 32,887,000
2021-12-31 40,242,000 29,742,000
2022-12-31 33,035,000 34,416,000
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

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Grants received

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Received 101 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
Co-operative Group £1,017 Grant to Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association
The Grocers' Charity £2,000 2023 Grant Masters Award - SSAFA
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation
Undisclosed 		£13,300
11 months 		East of England Regional Hub
May 2023 to Apr 2024
County Durham Community Foundation
Community Grants Funding Programme 		£5,000
11 months 		Bishop Auckland Veterans Group
Jan 2023 to Dec 2023
Masonic Charitable Foundation
Matched Funding 		£1,000 MCF Matched Funding
Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces Charities (Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust) 		£33,333 Covenant Fund
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland £500 Grant to SSAFA
Corra Foundation
Household Hardship Fund 		£5,250
11.967213114754099 months 		Household Hardship Fund
Jan 2023 to Jan 2024
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland £2,000 Grant to SSAFA
Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces Families Fund (AF3) 		£59,824 ARMED FORCES FAMILY FUND (AF3)

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

National Lottery grants data comes from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport who publish the National Lottery grants database.

This data is used under the Open Government Licence. Grants that are also published under 360Giving have been removed to ensure there is not duplication.

  • The National Lottery (1 grant) | Licence

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