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Royal Air Forces Association

Also known as: Rafa

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC037673
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Sept. 16, 2026. Filing history
Registered
Dec. 15, 2006
Legal form
Statutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)

Address

Address
RAF Association Headquarters
Atlas House
41 Wembley Road
Leicester
LE3 1UT

Contact

Website
rafa.org.uk
Screenshot of the Royal Air Forces Association website

Activities

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

'the advancement of citizenship or community development','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'Older People','People with disabilities or health problems','Other defined groups'

Objectives: 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.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
UK and overseas

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
Dec. 31, 2025 Sept. 16, 2026On time £27,221,000 £28,105 597
Dec. 31, 2024 Sept. 29, 2025On time £21,646,000 £22,178,000 573
Dec. 31, 2023 Sept. 25, 2024On time £16,231,000 £17,695,000 162
Dec. 31, 2022 Sept. 22, 2023On time £12,558,000 £15,913,000 314
Dec. 31, 2021 Sept. 28, 2022On time £12,506,000 £14,354,000 205
Dec. 31, 2020 Sept. 22, 2021 £13,922,000 £17,240,000 313

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.