Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 0

Strong growth: +2
Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

Mainly male board: -1

Large volunteers +5

Overall GiG Score: 4

BENTWATERS AVIATION SOCIETY

Bentwaters Aviation Society was formed primarily to operate the Bentwaters Cold War Museum. The purpose of the Bentwaters Cold War Museum is to collect, preserve, display and provide for scholarship, material relating to the history of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge and aviation generally where a link with Bentwaters and Woodbridge is established, for the public benefit in perpetuity.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very 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:

The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 16 years

www.bentwaters-as.org.uk

info@bentwaters-as.org.uk

07588877020

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£34	£44	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/22	£72	£56	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	45
31/03/21	£26	£25	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	29
31/03/20	£31	£32	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/19	£29	£26	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18	£26	£21	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£24	£27	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£25	£24	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£40	£37	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£75	£74	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£45	£40	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£31	£21	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£31	£25	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£34	£37	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£11	£5	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Suffolk,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
50 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Gender Split

ANDREW DOUGLAS HORREX

CHRISTOPHER BALMER Appointed: 2022

DENNIS CROWE Appointed: 2022

ERROLL GODFREY FROST

GARY STANLEY Appointed: 2014

GRAHAM MICHAEL KENNETH GILBERT

GRAHAM ALAN HAYNES (Chair)

JONATHAN DAVID SAUNDERS

KAREN JENNIFER HAYNES

SARAH JANE BROWN

SIMON GLADAS Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/05/2008, number: 1124197

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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

15 returns made; all on time

Main office

BUILDING 134
BENTWATERS PARKS
RENDLESHAM
WOODBRIDGE
SUFFOLK
IP12 2TW

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF RAF BENTWATERS AND RAF WOODBRIDGE, IN PARTICULAR BY NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF A MUSEUM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

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