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Registered charity · London

The RAF Benevolent Fund Housing Trust Limited

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £3.3m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.rafbf.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The R.A.F. Benevolent Fund Housing Trust Limited
Registered
1972

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.3m£1.9m
  • 2024£2.2m£1.9m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.3m£2.0m
  • 2021£2.4m£1.7m
Charitable objects

TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST, THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND IN ITS CHARITABLE WORK AND IN PARTICULAR TO CARRY INTO EFFECT THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OF THE FUND BY PURCHASING OWNING TAKING ON LEASE AND OTHERWISE PROVIDING HOUSING ACCOMMODATION FOR MEMBERS OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE OR THE WIDOWS OR THE WIDOWS OR OTHER DEPENDANTS OF SUCH MEMBERS OR FORMER MEMBERS WHO ARE IN NEED PARTICULARLY OF ACCOMMODATION WHETHER THROUGH ILLNESS DISABLEMENT OR OTHERWISE.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

5.4y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 7Disability 2Education/training 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 7Other services 6Finance 5

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£2.2m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

95.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.1 in 2020

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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
264636
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21ST JUNE 1972 AS AMENDED 24 JUNE 2003.
Companies House
Company number 01058896 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7307 3318 · lisa.harmshaw@rafbf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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