The Helicopter Museum

Registered charity 281053 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BRITISH ROTORCRAFT MUSEUM AND AVON AIR COLLECTION LTD

Preservation and conservation of Historial Rotorcraft.

Objects

For the public benefit to advance education in aviation in such ways as the trustees think fit, including but not limited to the preservation and presentation of aircraft, aeronautical equipment of historical or technical interest and maintaining the heritage of the airfield site on which the museum is located.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £78,468 for the year, with total unrestricted funds standing at £1,186,801. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold three months of normal activities, and the current unrestricted funds significantly exceed this target. The independent examiner reported no material matters requiring attention, and the directors consider the state of affairs to be satisfactory.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Captain Peter Turner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clive John Elks
• Dr Alisdair Edward James Wood EngD/CEng
• GEOFFREY WILLIAM DORE
• Philip Henry Chalmers Winterton
• Robert David Adams
• STEVEN RICHARD WHITTAKER

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

Operates in: North Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED.

• DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED income £314k
• ESSEX & HERTS AIR AMBULANCE TRUST income £16.9m
• FLY HARRIER TRUST income £431k
• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• 1692 income £462k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILEMON TOXTETH income £142k

Side by side with its peers

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