01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC038056
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Cross Border
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- Not supplied
- Staff
- 401
- Postcode
- EC3R8AD
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Charitable purposes
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
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.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | £33,206,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £33,617,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 401 | 3 August 2026 |
| 31 December 2024 | £105,826,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £34,025,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 401 | 21 July 2025 |
| 31 December 2023 | £34,120,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £35,147,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 401 | 24 July 2024 |
| 31 December 2022 | £33,035,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £34,416,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 401 | 20 July 2023 |
| 31 December 2021 | £40,242,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £29,742,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 401 | 12 August 2022 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- Queen Elizabeth House, 4 St Dunstan's Hill, LONDON
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.ssafa.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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