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Registered charity · London

Royal Aeronautical Society

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £6.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Belgium, Canada and more
Website
www.aerosociety.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Aeronautical Society
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.3m£6.2m
  • 2024£6.2m£5.8m
  • 2023£5.9m£4.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.8m£4.7m
  • 2021£4.4m£3.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE GENERAL ADVANCEMENT OF AERONAUTICAL ART SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

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.

2.2y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9

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

Construction 16Utilities 2Business 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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£6.3m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

24.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 31.3 in 2021

60 from 37 in 2021
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
313708
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED BY LETTERS PATENT DATED 17 JANUARY 1949 AMENDED 3 FEBRUARY 1950, 11 JANUARY 1960, 8 FEBRUARY 1960, 14 NOVEMBER 1974, 18 MAY 1987, 23 AUGUST 1990, 28 APRIL 1994. BY-LAWS LAST UPDATED 23 JANUARY 2003.
Companies House
Company number RC000439 · Active
Contact on the register
02076704300 · raes@aerosociety.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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