AIRSHIP HERITAGE TRUST

Registered charity 296398 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AIRSHIPS ONLINE, FRIENDS OF CARDINGTON AIRSHIP STATION

Promote the study of airship historyStimulate interest in Cardington as an airship base and encourage the preservation of its principal buildingsPromote the development of a national airship museum and study centrePublication of the journal DIRIGIBLEAcquisition of artefacts and memorabiliaMaintaining close links with relevant museumsManagement of the Collection and trading stock

Objects

TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF AIRSHIPS AND TO PRESENT THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY TO THE PUBLIC AND TO STIMULATE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE ROLE OF CARDINGTON AS AN AIRSHIP BASE AND IN THE CONSERVATION OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS THEREOF AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE FORMATION AND OPERATION OF A MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTRE DEVOTED TO THE AIRSHIP.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Policies the charity declares

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• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Volunteer management

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Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 05/11/2025, 5 days after the 31/10/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR B HARRISONchair
• John Arthur Baker
• MR A J LAWSON
• MR C L ANGELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Graeme Raymond Hills

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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