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Registered charity · Bristol

Bristol Aero Collection Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.aerospacebristol.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bristol Aero Collection Trust
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.5m£2.9m
  • 2024£3.7m£3.7m
  • 2023£3.0m£3.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.4m
  • 2021£2.3m£2.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ALL MATTERS CONCERNING AIRCRAFT AND THE AIRCRAFT AND AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF A MUSEUM FOR THE PUBLIC DISPLAY, RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION OF AIRCRAFT, FLYING BOATS, MISSLES, ROCKETS, SATELLITES, OTHER FLYING AERIAL OR SPACE DEVICES OR MACHINES AND THE COMPONENT PARTS OF THEM AND DRAWINGS OR PICTURES AND OTHER PRODUCTS OF, OR RELATING TO THE AIRCRAFT AND AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES; AND 2) TO PROMOTE OR UNDERTAKE RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY OF AIRCRAFT DESIGN MANUFACTURE AND OPERATION INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF THE PERSONS AND COMPANIES INVOLVED IN THESE ACTIVITIES AND TO PUBLISH AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL ACTIVITIES AND TO PUBLISH AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH.

Grants received

7 grants · £5,527,180 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

5.4y median 3.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 11General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 16Professional services 4Education 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.5m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

35 from 58 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1010632
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/02/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 25/09/2012 as amended on 18 May 2018
Companies House
Company number 02689238 · Active
Contact on the register
01179315315 · info@aerospacebristol.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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