THE BRITISH AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 229957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BALPA BENEVOLENT FUND

Applications considered only from current or retired British commercial airline pilots, flight engineers and winchmen and their dependants

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL WANT AMONGST SUCH OF THE FOLLOWING PERSONS WHO ARE, FOR THE TIME BEING, NEEDY OR DESERVING. NAMELY PERSONS WHO ARE, OR WHO HAVE BEEN, ENGAGED PROFESSIONALLY AS PILOTS, FLIGHT ENGINEERS HELICOPTER WINCHMEN OR NAVIGATORS IN COMMERCIAL AVIATION; THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN EMPLOYEES OF THE ASSOCIATION OR ITS WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARIES; AND WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND ORPHANS OF ALL SUCH PERSONS AND ANYONE DEPENDENT ON ALL SUCH PERSONS FOR THE ORDINARY NECESSITIES OF LIFE 2. TO PROMOTE EDUCATION THROUGH PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND/OR BURSARIES TO SUCH PERSONS DEFINED ABOVE OR, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, TO ANY OTHER NEEDY OR DESERVING PERSON.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,260,899, which the trustees describe as putting the Fund in a strong position to meet future applications. The filing confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, supported by sufficient cash and net assets.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLYN ELIZABETH EVANS
• DAVID HOGG
• Graham John Fowler
• Martin Drake
• Matthew Mavin
• ROBIN KEEGAN
• Thomas Hill-Tout

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 British Airways Benevolent Fund.

• The British Airways Benevolent Fund income £120k
• THE AIR PILOTS TRUST income £284k
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND income £27.7m
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND income £2.4m
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE DEPENDANTS FUND income £409k
• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE CENTRAL FUND income £6.6m

Side by side with its peers

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