|

Find that Charity

Organisation record

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

A Registered Charity based in England

This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 4 active records and 0 inactive records, from 4 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-1081009 .
What is an organisation identifier?

An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.

Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.

Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.

Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.

GB-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC038109 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

Description

(a) the maintenance, upkeep and repair of the War Memorial known as the RAF Memorial situated at the Victoria Embankment, London. and b) The relief and assistance by all available means of all or any of thc following classes of beneficiaries who are in need of such relief or assistance by reason of poverty, disability, sickness, infirmity or otherwise, namely:- all persons of all ranks who are or have or shall have been at any time or shall be at any time members of the Royal Air Force, the Royal I Auxiliary Air Force, the Royal Air Force Reserves, the Women's I Royal Air Force or the Air Force or Auxiliary Air Force of any present or former colony dominion or dependent territory of Great Britain or members of any former organisation the place of which has I substantially been taken by the said organisations or any of them, or I members of any future organisations which hereafter shall substantially take the place of the said organisations or any of them. and (ii) all persons who shall at any time have been or be widows, widowers, children or other dependants of any of the persons above referred to.

OSCR Charity number

SC038109

Registered

Postcode

W1B 1AR

Website

rafbf.org

Latest income

£23,853,000 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download published by Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

GB-SC-SC038109

Locations

Back to contents

Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.

Registered Office in the UK

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

GB-SC-SC038109

Linked records

Back to contents

This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 4 active records and 0 inactive records, from 4 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-1081009 .
What is an organisation identifier?

An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.

Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.

Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.

Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.

GB-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC038109 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

GB-SC-SC038109

Themes and activities

Back to contents

This organisation has been classified using different categories:

Activities (OSCR)

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Beneficiaries (OSCR)

  • Other defined groups

Purposes (OSCR)

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Grant-making foundations H10

UK Charity Activity Tags

These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.

Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.

  • Armed forces AF » RAF AF103
  • Beneficiary group BE » Children BE102
  • Beneficiary group BE » Widows; widowers and orphans BE112
  • Beneficiary group BE » Women BE113
  • Beneficiary group BE » People with disabilities BE200
  • Heritage HR » Historical conservation and restoration HR102
  • Heritage HR » Monuments; statues and memorials HR104
  • Social welfare SW » Benevolent Society SW101
  • Social welfare SW » Individual poverty SW105

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

GB-SC-SC038109

Charity financial history

Back to contents
Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
2007-04-20 Registered as a charity
2017-12-31 23,257,000 22,172,000
2018-12-31 22,524,000 26,637,000
2019-12-31 21,939,000 33,993,000
2020-12-31 19,138,000 31,135,000
2021-12-31 25,528,000 22,359,000
2022-12-31 23,853,000 22,484,000
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

GB-SC-SC038109

Grants received

Back to contents

Received 15 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.

Date Funder Amount awarded Description
Foundation Scotland
David and Averil Macdonald Fund (Parent Programme)
£2,500
2 months
Supporting Young People in the RAF Family
Oct 2023 to Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces Charities (Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust)
£27,236 Covenant Fund
Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces Charities (Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust)
£9,894 Covenant Fund
Ministry of Defence
HMT/AFCFT fund for Afghan veterans
£430,832 OVA Afghanistan Veterans' Fund
Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces Charities (Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust)
£9,120 Covenant Fund
The Grocers' Charity £1,226 2021 - RAF Benevolent Fund
Foundation Scotland
ScotRail (Abellio) Employee
£250
1 month
Grant to RAF Benevolent Fund
Aug 2020 to Sep 2020
Ministry of Defence
COVID19 Impact Fund
£158,500 Covid-19 Impact Fund
Scottish Government
Wellbeing Fund - Open call - Round 2
£25,000
4.459016393442623 months
The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund
Mar 2020 to Jul 2020
Ministry of Defence
Defence - LIBOR Grants awarded by the Chancellor FY18/19
£1,000,000 Financial Assistance/Support

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

GB-SC-SC038109

Services regulated by the Care Quality Commission

Back to contents

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

GB-SC-SC038109

Data sources

Back to contents

Find that Charity

Find that Charity Relationship Lookups

Last fetched from source: 2024-05-08

| Access data | Download data (csv)

Source for record links:

Office of Scottish Charity Regulator

Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download

Last fetched from source: 2024-05-02

Open Government Licence v2.0 | Access data | Download data

Source for records:

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Registered charities in England and Wales

Data download service provided by the Charity Commission

Last fetched from source: 2024-05-07

Open Government Licence v2.0 | Access data | Download data (zip)

Source for records:

Source for record links: