The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Royal AIR Force Club

Registered charity 1108295 Registered since 2005

Operates: City Of Westminster

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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.

3.9y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure
6.4y
average years in governance
9
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 15Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 13Animals 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Hospitality 11Finance 6Health and social care 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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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£13.1m 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

174 from 95 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

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Also active in the same field

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Contact

Websitewww.rafclub.org.uk
EmailGeneralOffice@rafclub.org.uk
Phone02073991000
AddressROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB, 128 PICCADILLY, LONDON, W1J 7PY

Finances

£13,131,931 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£7,149,551£6,244,479
2022£10,182,429£9,125,011
2023£11,566,632£10,390,938
2024£12,281,450£10,937,052
2025£13,131,931£11,597,226

What it does

What

Education/trainingArmed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BY IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF OFFICERS HOLDING COMMISSIONS THEREIN AND IN OTHER ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND BY PRESERVING AND FOSTERING AMONG THEM THE ESPIRIT DE CORPS AND TRADITIONS OF THOSE SERVICES BY EVERY SUITABLE MEANS AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:BY ESTABLISHING MAINTAINING AND CONDUCTING IN LONDON A CENTRAL RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL CLUB FOR THE USE AND ACCOMMODATION OF MEMBERS, AND BY MAKING AVAILABLE TO THEM SUCH OTHER SERVICES, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES AS MAY BE DESIRABLE AT PRICES WHICH, SO FAR AS POSSIBLE, CAN BE AFFORDED BY ALL MEMBERS OF WHATEVER RANKBY ENCOURAGING BY MEANS OF DISCUSSIONS, LECTURES, FILM SHOWS, VISITS TO PLACES OF INTEREST AND BY OTHER MEANS, AN INTEREST IN ALL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH FLYING IN GENERAL AND WITH ROYAL AIR FORCE IN PARTICULARBY ENCOURAGING AND ORGANISING THE HOLDING AT THE CLUB OF SERVICE REUNIONS, MEETINGS AND SIMILAR FUNCTIONS AND BY PLACING AT THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT FACILITIES AT THE CLUB FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES OF FOREIGN AIR FORCESBY ENCOURAGING AND BY PROVIDING FACILITIES TO ENABLE OFFICERS SERVING IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND IN OTHER ASSOCIATED SERVICES TO MEET AND ASSOCIATE REGULARLY WITH EACH OTHER, AND WITH PERSONS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS OFFICERS IN SUCH SERVICES AND WITH MEMBERS OF OTHER AIR FORCES AND TO BENEFIT FROM THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF SUCH PERSONS

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24 DECEMBER 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28 JUL 2017 as amended on 16 May 2024

Trustees (15)

15trustees
58median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Royal AIR Force Club · 05321353 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 24/12/2004

4 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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