The Air Pilots Benevolent Fund

Country: England & Wales
Charity number: 212952
Status: Registered
Registered: Dec. 12, 1962
Legal form: Other

Address

Address: Honourable Company Of Air Pilots
52A Borough High Street
London
SE1 1XN

Contact

Phone: 020 7404 4032
Email: office@airpilots.org
Website: airpilots.org

Activities

The relief of poverty of persons who are or have been engaged professionally as air pilots or air navigators and who are British subjects by birth or by naturalisation or who are liverymen, upper freemen or freemen of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of London.The relief of poverty and/or advancement of education of the dependants widows and orphans of all such persons mentioned above.

Objects: 4. Objects of the charity(1) The objects of the charity are:a) The relief of poverty of persons who are or have been engaged professionally as Air Pilots or Air Navigators or Air Technical Crew in Commercial Aviation and who are British subjects by birth or by naturalization or who are Liverymen, Upper Freemen or Freemen of the Honorable Company of Air Pilots of London.b) the relief of poverty and/or advancement of education of the dependents widows and orphans of all such persons as mentioned in a).(2) The trustees may relieve persons in need by:(a) making grants or loans of money to them; or (b) providing or paying for goods, services or facilities for them; or (c) making grants of money to other persons or bodies who provide goods, services or facilities to those in need.(3) Insofar as the income and capital of the charity cannot be applied towards objects (a) and (b) above it may be applied in supporting such charities established wholly for purposes in the field of aviation or for such charitable purposes connected with aviation as the trustees shall determine.

Classification

How: Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations
What: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who: Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, Other Defined Groups

Geography

Country: Akrotiri, Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Dhekelia, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle Of Man, Jersey, Malta, New Zealand, Qatar, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, United States, Zimbabwe
Region: Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end	Income	Expenditure
Sept. 30, 2025	£78,173	£55,942
Sept. 30, 2024	£275,002	£50,101
Sept. 30, 2023	£41,512	£49,583
Sept. 30, 2022	£27,973	£35,879
Sept. 30, 2021	£34,218	£24,734

Trustees

Name	Appointed
CAPTAIN CHRISTINE ANN McGEE	April 16, 2019
Captain Adrian Joseph Robert Keenan	Nov. 14, 2019
Cdr Mark Christopher Walker	March 28, 2023
Elizabeth Palmer Walkinshaw	March 24, 2025
Ian Melia MA FCA VR	July 13, 2021
John Anthony Denyer	March 25, 2024
Kieran Ferrier Trasler	Nov. 15, 2022
Lt Col Ian Henry Murning	July 13, 2021
Paul Joseph Tacon Ba Acis