The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Royal AIR Forces Association - Corporate Body

Registered charity 226686 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Malta

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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.

14 trustees on the board

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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.

Disability 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14Accommodation/housing 13The 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.

Other services 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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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£21.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

7.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 8.0 in 2020

573 from 313 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.
4%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

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.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.rafa.org.uk
Emailenquiries@rafa.org.uk
Phone0800 018 2361
AddressAtlas House, 41 Wembley Road, Leicester, LE3 1UT

Finances

£21,646,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£13,922,000£17,240,000
2021£12,506,000£14,354,000
2022£12,558,000£15,913,000
2023£16,231,000£17,695,000
2024£21,646,000£22,178,000

What it does

What

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesDisabilityAccommodation/housing

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Defined Groups

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Services

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, THROUGH THE COMRADESHIP ENGENDERED BY ITS MEMBERS, THE WELFARE BY CHARITABLE MEANS OF ALL SERVING OR FORMER MEMBERS OF OUR AIR FORCES, THEIR SPOUSES AND DEPENDANTS, TOGETHER WITH THE WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS AND DEPENDANTS OF THOSE WHO DIED WHILE SERVING OR SUBSEQUENTLY.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER OF 26/6/96 AMENDED BY SCHEME OF 28/5/97 AND ORDERS OF COUNCIL OF 1/10/97 AND 13/12/2000 AND SCHEME OF 12/4/01 & ORDER OF COUNCIL OF 17/7/03 & CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT 06/07/2006

Trustees (14)

14trustees
76median age
1aged 70+

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