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Registered charity · Bedford

Airship Heritage Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £12k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.airshipsonline.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Airship Heritage Trust
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£12k£19k
  • 2023£12k£18k
  • 2022£8k£21k
Earlier years
  • 2021£7k£8k
  • 2020£7k£10k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF AIRSHIPS AND TO PRESENT THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY TO THE PUBLIC AND TO STIMULATE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE ROLE OF CARDINGTON AS AN AIRSHIP BASE AND IN THE CONSERVATION OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS THEREOF AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE FORMATION AND OPERATION OF A MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTRE DEVOTED TO THE AIRSHIP.

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.

6y median 6y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

2
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 5Environment/conservation/heritage 5General Charitable Purposes 5

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 3Other services 1Professional 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£12k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
296398
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27TH FEBRUARY 1987 AS AMENDED 8TH MAY 1991 AND 13TH JUNE 1994
Companies House
Company number 02104681 · Active
Contact on the register
01234340034 · membership@airshipsonline.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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