GENERAL AVIATION SAFETY COUNCIL

Registered charity 1094175 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GASCO

The charity works to improve safety in all forms of general aviation via: quarterly magazine 'Flight Safety' - newsletters, - physical safety evenings, seminars, webinars, visits & outside events - production of safety material - special investigations - responding to consultations and delivery of Airspace Infringements Awareness courses approved by the CAA.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO FOSTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENERAL AVIATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ("THE UK") ALONG SAFE LINES BY ENCOURAGING COMPETENCE, SAFETY AND GOOD AIRMANSHIP AMONG GENERAL AVIATION PILOTS AND OPERATORS AND ALL CONCERNED WITH GENERAL AVIATION ACTIVITY.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased trading on 31 March 2026 and is undergoing an orderly wind-down. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £23,167, which exceeded the policy target sufficient to meet winding-up costs. The charity remained solvent throughout the reporting period.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Captain Nils Jamieson
• Elizabeth Walkinshaw
• Martin Robinson
• Philip Andrew Hall
• Russell William Mason
• Simon Tilling
• WG CDR GARY COLEMAN RAF

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT SAFETY.

• THE PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT SAFETY income £350k
• THE SOLWAY AVIATION SOCIETY LIMITED income £115k
• AVIATION ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £235k
• ASSOCIATION OF AIR AMBULANCES (CHARITY) LTD income £2.0m
• BRITISH SAFETY COUNCIL income £11.6m
• AIRFIELDS OF BRITAIN CONSERVATION TRUST income £242k

Side by side with its peers

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