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Registered charity · Bristol

Great Western AIR Ambulance Charity

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £6.7m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, North Somerset, Bath And North East Somerset and more
Website
www.greatwesternairambulance.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Great Western AIR Ambulance Charity
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£6.7m£6.5m
  • 2023£5.4m£5.7m
  • 2022£4.5m£4.6m
Earlier years
  • 2021£4.0m£4.1m
  • 2020£4.1m£3.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND INJURY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT IN PARTICULAR THE PROVISION OF AN AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE OR OTHER EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION PRIMARILY IN THE AREA SERVED BY THE FORMER GREAT WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST NAMELY BRISTOL, BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, NORTH SOMERSET, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND PARTS OF WILTSHIRE.

Grants received

20 grants · £1,327,391 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.

8 trustees on the board

2.5y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7Amateur Sport 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.

Health and social care 9Transport 9Finance 6

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£6.7m 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.

4.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.3 in 2020

53 from 18 in 2020
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
1121300
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 OCTOBER 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 06386523 · Active
Contact on the register
03034444999 · info@greatwesternairambulance.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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