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Registered charity · Lincoln

Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance Charity

Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance Charity is a registered charity (number 1017501) based in Lincoln, governed by 6 trustees. Latest income £13m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Lincs Ambucopter, The Ambucopter (Charity Commission)

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire
Website
www.ambucopter.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire AIR Ambulance Charity
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£12m
  • 2024£14m£11m
  • 2023£11m£9.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.6m£8.2m
  • 2021£7.5m£7.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND INJURY AND THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE BY THE PROVISION AND/OR SUPPORT OF AN AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE AND/OR OTHER EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POPULATION PRIMARILY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) IN THE COUNTIES OF LINCOLNSHIRE AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

Grants received

10 grants · £3,336,008 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

  • Department of Health and Social Care · £1,818,199
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £800,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £700,000
  • Masonic Charitable Foundation · £10,500 (4 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £7,000 (2 grants)

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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.

6 trustees on the board

2y median 2.5y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

5
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5Accommodation/housing 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 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.

Finance 42Professional services 6Health and social care 5

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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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£13.3m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

11.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 15.8 in 2021

62 from 33 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
1017501
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 FEBRUARY 1993 AS AMENDED BY A SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED 21 JANUARY 1997 AND 21 SEPTEMBER 1999AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 14 SEP 2016 as amended on 11 Oct 2022 as amended on 04 Apr 2024 as amended on 07 Feb 2024 as amended on 10 Nov 2025 as amended on 10 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 02788157 · Active
Contact on the register
01522548469 · info@ambucopter.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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