THE ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION - CORPORATE BODY

Registered charity 226686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAFA, THE RAF ASSOCIATION

The provision of welfare support to members of the Royal Air Forces community. The Association's welfare activities include the operation of three respite care homes, provision of sheltered housing, assistance for individuals in welfare need, support to the serving RAF through contributions to Contact Houses and Internet Cafes.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that consolidated unrestricted general reserves totalled £13,334k, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £13.2m. The charity reported a consolidated deficit of £532k for the year, driven by increased charitable expenditure, but maintains a healthy cash and investment balance to support its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The RAF Association (RAFA) — Deregistered, 3 registered locations, last inspected 20/01/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2024) — 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 (28/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Air Vice Marshal Alastair Reidchair
• Air Cdre Lee Turner
• Air Marshal Sir Barry Mark North
• Lucinda Eggleton
• MARK NEAL
• Marion Frances Wells
• Raymond Hall MBE
• Sally Munday
• Sheila Bailey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Arnett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sqn Ldr Micah Aopare
• WO Murugesvaran Subramaniam
• Wg Cdr Richard Anthony Youngs · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wilbert Mulders

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

Operates in: Australia · Barbados · Belgium · Cyprus · Falkland Islands · France · Germany · Gibraltar · Greece · Guernsey · Hong Kong · Ireland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL AIR FORCE CENTRAL FUND.

• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE CENTRAL FUND income £6.6m
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND income £27.7m
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE DEPENDANTS FUND income £409k
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE RUGBY UNION income £135k
• OFFICERS' MESS RAF BENSON income £168k
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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