Automobile Association Charitable Trust for Road Safety and the Environment

Analysis

Automobile Association Charitable Trust for Road Safety and the Environment is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending January 2025, Automobile Association Charitable Trust for Road Safety and the Environment reported income of £148k and spending of £89k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2021 to January 2025, income grew from £77k to £148k (+91%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2022, when income rose by 125%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Automobile Association Charitable Trust for Road Safety and the Environment sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Church of the Living God Hanworth 2009 (£148k), Cavernoma Alliance UK (£148k) and The Plymouth and Cornwall Cancer Fund (£148k).