YORKSHIRE AIR AMBULANCE LIMITED

Registered charity 1084305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q8055671 · Wikipedia · also known as YORKSHIRE AIR AMBULANCE

Provision of a Air Ambulance Service across the County of Yorkshire and surrounding areas

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND INJURY, THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE AND THE MEETING OF OTHER MEDICAL NEED BY THE PROVISION, SUPPORT AND USE OF AIR AMBULANCE AND OTHER AMBULANCE PROVISION AND LOGISTIC SUPPORT PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FORMER ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF YORKSHIRE.

Area of benefit: THE FORMER ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF YORKSHIRE

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: Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £4.6m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £12.3m. Per the trustees' report, net assets total £55.7m, reflecting a robust balance sheet that supports the charity's ongoing operations and strategic development.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,001 to £110,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 11 (FY2024) → 14 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mike Harrop — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~80.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mike Harropchair
• AMARJIT SINGH
• David Rose
• Dr Phillip Douglas Batin
• Elizabeth Dean
• Judith Alison Parker
• KEVIN HYNES
• Mark Jones
• Paul Henry Skelton
• RICHARD MARSH · trustee of 2 other charities
• Virginia Lloyd · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Doncaster · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORKSHIRE AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITIES.

• YORKSHIRE AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITIES income £232k
• ASSOCIATION OF AIR AMBULANCES (CHARITY) LTD income £2.0m
• WILTSHIRE AND BATH AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY income £4.8m
• CORNWALL AIR AMBULANCE TRUST income £9.8m
• COMMUNITY MATTERS (YORKSHIRE) income £144k
• THAMES VALLEY AIR AMBULANCE income £12.8m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.