Disc Warrant Officers' & Sergeants' Mess

Analysis

Disc Warrant Officers' & Sergeants' Mess is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shefford. It was registered in March 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover other charitable purposes, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Disc Warrant Officers' & Sergeants' Mess reported income of £78k and spending of £98k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £73k to £78k (+7.1%), an average of +1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 1,463 England and Wales charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Disc Warrant Officers' & Sergeants' Mess sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Child of Mine (£77k), Albion Street Community Charity Ltd (£78k) and St Laurence Ecclesiastical Charities (£75k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.