Royal Air Forces Association - Barry and The Vale Branch No. 247

Offers support, assistance and advice to those who are serving or have served in the Royal Air Forces and their dependants, including widows or widowers of those who served.

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

In Wales

• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: Barry

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £2,360 and spent £2,360.

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

Down 41%, from £4,031 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £2,360 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 100% 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.

• Andrew ScottChairAppointed 16 February 2023
• Howard J Provis MBE
• Lynda DoyleAppointed 28 April 2011
• Paul MarshallAppointed 16 February 2023
• Peter Doherty MBEAppointed 15 February 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, 5 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

231627

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

4 December 1963

Governing document

SEE RAFA CORPORATE BODY 226686 as amended on 16 Mar 2023

Website

www.rafa.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• 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

• OpenCouncil: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Vale of Glamorgan's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth