NATIONAL AIDS TRUST

Registered charity 297977 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3521976 · Wikipedia

To promote public health through effective HIV prevention and early diagnosis of HIV infection; to promote the rights, dignity, health and wellbeing of people affected by HIV, or at risk of HIV infection, in the UK; to advance the education of the public in general in order to increase awareness and understanding of HIV and AIDS and eradicate HIV-related stigma, discrimination and inequality.

Objects

TO PROMOTE PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH EFFECTIVE HIV PREVENTION AND EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF HIV INFECTION. TO PROMOTE THE RIGHTS, DIGNITY, HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY HIV, OR AT RISK OF HIV INFECTION, IN THE UK.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL (AND IN PARTICULAR POLICY MAKERS, OPINION FORMERS AND DECISION-MAKERS) IN ORDER TO INCREASE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF HIV AND AIDS AND ERADICATE HIV-RELATED STIGMA, DISCRIMINATION AND INEQUALITY.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £242,450 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in a reduction of free reserves to £311,301. Per the trustees' report, this financial position has led to a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, as much of the budgeted income for the following year remains unsecured. The trustees have implemented cost-saving measures, including workforce reductions, to address these challenges.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Begbies Chartered Accountants. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Public Statement: Transition of Aidsmap and NAM Publications' Assets to Terrence Higgins Trust and National AIDS Trust aidsmap.com · 01/02/2025

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National AIDS Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 27.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Matthew John Weaitchair
• Angelina Namiba
• David Neil Sparks
• Dr Ann Kathleen Sullivan
• Gary Christie
• John Ceri Edwards
• STEPHEN CRAMPTON-HAYWARD

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 HIVE FOUNDATION.

• THE HIVE FOUNDATION income £98k
• AIDS CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING income £539k
• NATIONAL HIV NURSES ASSOCIATION income £137k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND HIV income £926k
• HIV I-BASE income £68k
• THE HIV RESEARCH TRUST income £68k

Side by side with its peers

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