AVIATION ENVIRONMENT TRUST

Registered charity 276987 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance knowledge and understanding of aviation's adverse environmental impacts through research and education.

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£235k
Latest spending
£222k
Registered
1979
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £12,184 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £234,634. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were maintained at the target level of £250,000, and the overall financial position is described as healthy with no material risks identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £250,000 (held: £250k)
“The current reserve target is £250,000.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Aviation Environment Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£235k£222k
31/03/2024£153k£89k
31/03/2023£234k£162k
31/03/2022£212k£112k
31/03/2021£128k£46k

Common questions

Is AVIATION ENVIRONMENT TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £12,184 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £234,634. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were maintained at the target level of £250,000, and the overall financial position is described as healthy with no material risks identified. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds AVIATION ENVIRONMENT TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name AVIATION ENVIRONMENT TRUST as a grant recipient include THE MILLENNIUM OAK TRUST, NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MILLENNIUM OAK TRUSTFY2023£100kDonations made to these charities within this year were f100,000 (Aviation Environment Trust)
NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£42kFlying Fair
NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£33kNo Airport Expansion

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund06/01/2011£8kSoundscape - Listening to the sounds of nature

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 THE AIR PILOTS TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
AVIATION ENVIRONMENT TRUST£235k—0no_policy—no doubt
THE AIR PILOTS TRUST FY2025£284k—0above—no doubt
FLY HARRIER TRUST FY2025£431k—0unclear—no doubt
CARYMOOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST FY2025£328k—0unclear—no doubt
AVRA FOUNDATION FY2025£2.4m—0unclear—no doubt
THE HERITAGE AIRCRAFT TRUST FY2025£251k—0above—no doubt

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