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Registered charity · London

Royal AIR Force Museum

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £19m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.rafmuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2022

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£20m
  • 2024£22m£19m
  • 2023£20m£19m

Income trend, 2023 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 62%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2 THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE MUSEUM IS HEREBY CONSTITUTED SHALL BE TO EDUCATE AND INFORM THE PUBLIC AND MEMBERS OF OUR ROYAL AIR FORCE ABOUT:2.1 THE HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF OUR ROYAL AIR FORCE, AND 2.2 THE ROLE OF OUR ROYAL AIR FORCE IN RELATION TO THE ARMED FORCES OF THE REALM, OTHER AIR FORCES AND AVIATION GENERALLY, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY COLLECTING, CONSERVING, PRESERVING, MANAGING, EXHIBITING AND STORING DOCUMENTS, ITEMS, ARTEFACTS AND OTHER MATERIALS IN THE COLLECTION.

Grants received

8 grants · £25,626,510 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £22,868,510 (6 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £2,000,000
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · £758,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £2,000,0002024-05-15
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero £758,0002024-03-11
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,000,0002022-11-23
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £1,995,2002015-12-03
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £4,999,7002015-05-19
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.

11 trustees on the board

2.7y median 4y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

1
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 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Amateur Sport 1Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 1

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 3 years.
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£18.9m 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.

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

203 from 202 in 2023
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.
63%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1197541
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 17 DEC 2021 as amended on 21 Mar 2022 as amended on 06 Jul 2023
Contact on the register
02085384839 · london@rafmuseum.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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