RAF Waddington Junior Ranks Welfare Fund

Analysis

RAF Waddington Junior Ranks Welfare Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincoln. It was registered in March 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover other charitable purposes, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending May 2025, RAF Waddington Junior Ranks Welfare Fund reported income of £48k and spending of £86k, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income grew from £32k to £48k (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 1,463 England and Wales charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, RAF Waddington Junior Ranks Welfare Fund sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Woolsery & District Agricultural Show (£47k), Chiddingstone Causeway Village Hall (£49k) and The Drop in Bereavement Centre (£47k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.