MAGPAS
Registered charity 1119279 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Treatment of injury or sickness by the provision of immediate medical care to any persons involved in accidents or medical emergencies.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £415,425 for the year, primarily due to an early repayment of £750,000 of borrowing to Social Investment Business. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves fell to £655,305, which is below the stated policy target of three months' operating capital (£1.1m).
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £655k; policy: three months' worth (£1.1m) of operating capital)
“While the charity aims to maintain three months’ worth (£1.1m) of operating capital as unrestricted reserves, it currently has £655,305”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donation from Air Ambulance UK, an organisation where CEO Daryl Brown is a Trustee.
“During the year a donation of £24,350 (2024: £23,468) was received from Air Ambulance UK, an organisation that Daryl Brown is also a Trustee.” — page 35
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by GH Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Magpas Air Ambulance (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.
- PELBROUGH-POWER, Clive — director, appointed 29/10/2025on trustee list
- BURBY, Mark — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
- CAREY, Christopher — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
- CHESTER, Marilyn Dawn — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
- CLARK, Graham Richard — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
- DERRETT, Ruth Bronwen — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
- GREENHALGH, Mark James — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
- HARRISON, Susan Miriam, Dr — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
- HUGHES, William Frederick — director, appointed 28/09/2022not on trustee list
- BRIDGE, John William — director, appointed 14/06/2021on trustee list
- OSTLER, Alec, Dr — director, appointed 24/02/2021on trustee list
- HOLDEN, Peter John Pashley, Dr — director, appointed 10/09/2016on trustee list
- PELBROUGH-POWER, Clive — secretary, appointed 26/11/2025
Official officers record.
CQC provider record: Magpas — Registered, 3 registered locations, 5 regulated activities, last inspected 13/09/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£2.1m
Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 37.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (22/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is MAGPAS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £415,425 for the year, primarily due to an early repayment of £750,000 of borrowing to Social Investment Business. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves fell to £655,305, which is below the stated policy target of three months' operating capital (£1.1m). Its FY2025 accounts were audited by GH Audit Limited.
Who funds MAGPAS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name MAGPAS as a grant recipient include THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY, THE VALIANT CHARITABLE TRUST, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, THE WILLIE AND MABEL MORRIS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE BATCHWORTH TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
Funders of similar charities
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Side by side with its peers
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