THE ROYAL AIR FORCE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1176054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Mission of the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust is to Promote the RAF and Inspire young people and RAF personnel to fulfil their potential in air, space and technology . This is achieved through the staging of the Royal International Air Tattoo annually and by the awarding of grants for flying scholarships and national STEM initiatives which are delivered throughout the year.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

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Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Air Marshal Phil Osborn CBE — Chairman (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Royal International Air Tattoo — “Powered by the Royal International Air Tattoo, we are committed to reaching 500,000 young people with STEM educational engagements by 2026” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 86.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Air Marshal Philip Osborn CBEchair
• Amanda Hickson
• Felicity Chadwick-Histed
• Miles Cohen
• Raj Mody MA FIA
• Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE
• Simon Kimble
• Sir Julian Young KBE CB
• Stephen Oldfield

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• THE MANIFOLD CHARITABLE TRUST income £735k
• RICHARDSON BROTHERS FOUNDATION income £335k
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE CENTRAL FUND income £6.6m
• THE RMIG ENDOWMENT TRUST income £1.0m
• THE HALL FOR CORNWALL TRUST income £10.5m

Side by side with its peers

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