City of Swansea Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association

Support the main body of the Royal Air Force Association

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Swansea and District

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £2,530 and spent £6,838.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 470%, from £444 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £2,530 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 270% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Phillip Charles Flower MBEChairAppointed 27 March 2024
• Kelly JarvisAppointed 1 April 2025
• Lorraine FlowerAppointed 24 March 2026
• Paul BranniganAppointed 24 March 2025
• William BennettAppointed 5 April 2024

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

231615

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 January 1964

Governing document

SEE RAFA CORPORATE BODY 226686 as amended on 01 Apr 2025

Website

www.rafa.org.uk.As the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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