WELSH AIR AMBULANCE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1083645 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q19831114 · Wikipedia · also known as WALES AIR AMBULANCE, WELSH AIR AMBULANCE

The relief of sickness and injury and the protection of human life, including by: a) the provision of emergency and specialised medical care; primarily by the provision and support of both road vehicles and air ambulances in Wales; and b) the provision of follow up support to those patients, and their relatives, who have received road vehicle and/or air ambulance support from the Charity.

Objects

2.1 The Objects of the Charity, for the public benefit, are the relief of sickness and injury and the protection of human life, including by (but not limited to): a) The provision of emergency and specialised medical care; primarily but not exclusively by the provision and support of both road vehicles and air ambulances in Wales; and b) the provision of follow up support to those patients, and their relatives, who have received road vehicle and/or air ambulance support from the Charity.

Area of benefit: WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Carmarthenshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £2.7 million for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £17.0 million and total expenditure of £19.7 million. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general reserves of £7.9 million remain within the stated target range of £7.8 million to £9.6 million, and designated funds of £5.2 million have been assigned to cover forecasted deficits over the next three years. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Wales Air Ambulance highlights lifesaving work during national awareness week wales247.co.uk · 11/09/2026
• Final Engagement: Wales Air Ambulance Service sbuhb.nhs.wales · 31/03/2026
• Wales Air Ambulance miss 550 patients amid rural location row bbc.com · 01/08/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04036600
• Trading subsidiary: WELSH AIR AMBULANCE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 04036635 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wales Air Ambulance Charitable Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LLOYD, Sian Lowri — director, appointed 15/07/2026on trustee list
• WILSON, Mark Ian Ranson — director, appointed 02/07/2025on trustee list
• KEEFE, David Patrick — director, appointed 02/07/2025on trustee list
• KNOWLES, Catherine Marie — director, appointed 16/04/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Luke — director, appointed 16/04/2025on trustee list
• MORGAN, Nia Eleri — director, appointed 16/04/2025on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, James — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• HAMPTON STONE, Craig — director, appointed 29/10/2024not on trustee list
• HARRIS, Paul — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• DAVIES, Laura Helen — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• BURDGE, Amanda Lee — director, appointed 21/04/2020on trustee list
• JACQUES, Kyle — director, appointed 28/11/2013on trustee list
• GILBERT, David — director, appointed 17/03/2009not on trustee list
• JAMES, Richard Mark — director, appointed 01/03/2001on trustee list
• HAWKINS, Christina Louise — secretary, appointed 23/09/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £591k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (101,506 followers) · instagram (14K followers) · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 37.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr KYLE JACQUESchair
• Amanda Lee Burdge
• Catherine Marie Knowles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colonel James Phillips
• Craig Hampton Stone
• DAVID GILBERT OBE
• David Patrick Keefe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Helen Davies
• Luke Smith
• MARK JAMES
• Mark Ian Ranson Wilson
• Nia Morgan
• Paul Harris
• Sian Lowri Lloyd

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILTSHIRE AND BATH AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY.

• WILTSHIRE AND BATH AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY income £4.8m
• AIR AMBULANCE FOUNDATION UK income £101k
• ASSOCIATION OF AIR AMBULANCES (CHARITY) LTD income £2.0m
• WELSH AMBULANCE SERVICES NHS TRUST CHARITY income £67k
• CORNWALL AIR AMBULANCE TRUST income £9.8m
• EAST ANGLIAN AIR AMBULANCE income £18.8m

Side by side with its peers

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