Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 8

HISTORIC AIRCRAFT FLIGHT TRUST

The Historic Aircraft Flight (HAF) Trust helps to preserve Historic Army Air Corps aircraft as a 'living museum' for veterans commemorative and memorial purposes, as an aid to recruiting and to supporting wider Army heritage in public. The Trust relies principally on donations. The fund is used to provide goods and services for the HAF that no longer available from or attributable to public funds.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity uses a corporate trustee

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£94	£62	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/22		£76	£45	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/21		£87	£65	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/20		£49	£40	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19
31/03/19		£20	£21	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21
31/03/18		£23	£25	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£25	£22	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£12	£16	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£0	£7	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£0	£2	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£0	£1	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£0	£1	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£41	£8	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£12	£48	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£23	£8	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/07	*	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/06?	*	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	NAN	0	0
31/03/04		£5	£3	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 31 years

https://haaf.uk

chair@haaf.uk

01264784499

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Armed Forces/Emergency Service Efficiency
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - COVID IMPACT FUND
£25,000	25/06/2020	Funding allowed the group to continue to operate during the Covid-19 pandemic
Ministry of Defence - Covid-19 Impact Fund
£25,000	15/06/2020	To maintain services and activities where organisations' finances had been impacted by Covid

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (1)

HISTORIC AIRCRAFT FLIGHT TRUSTEE LTD

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/07/1993, number: 1024043
Registered at Companies House on 01/05/2015, number: 09572211

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR09: 157 days late, AR07: 29 days late, AR06: 1 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE ASSAULT GLIDER TRUST on 22/04/2024

Main office

c/o HQ AAC
Middle Wallop
STOCKBRIDGE
Hampshire
SO20 8DY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF AVIATION IN THE ARMY AND TO EDUCATE THE MEMBERS THEREOF AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AVIATION HISTORY TRADITIONS AND EXPLOITS OF THE ARMY IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE IN FLYING ORDER OF THE ARMY'S HISTORIC AIRCRAFT FLIGHT (HAF(T))

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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