Finance Score: -14
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 1
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -4 times
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: -11 ?

ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION COLCHESTER BRANCH 

The object for which the association is established is to promote, through the comradeship engendered by its members, the welfare by charitable means of all serving and former members of our Air Forces, their spouses and dependants together with the widows and widowers and dependants of those who died whilst serving or subsequently.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing and returns have been filed late on 4 occasions over the last 5 years
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
31/12/21*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/20*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19*£4£3£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/18*£2£3£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£4£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£3£4£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£4£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£5£5£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£5£5£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£4£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£4£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£4£4£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£3£2£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£3£2£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£1£1£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 26 years

jalden68@btinternet.com

01206540245

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other individual and family services
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Essex,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

Who's supporting 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
Department for Work and Pensions - PEARSON NURSERIES LIMMITED
£747 01/04/2022
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
Department for Work and Pensions - PENDULUM ATELIER
£6,904 01/04/2021
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/09/1998, number: 1071533
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR21: 112 days late, AR20: 134 days late, AR19: 175 days late, AR18: 230 days late,
Main office

40 HEATHFIELDS
EIGHT ASH GREEN
COLCHESTER
CO6 3QP

Objectives

AS PER RAFA (226686)

Defined Area of Benefit:

COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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