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Ww1 Aviation Heritage Trust Ltd

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1156699HookArts, culture, heritage and science
Income£11k2025-12-31
Spending£16ksame year
Spent / received92%5-year average
Size in its cause33rd pctArts, culture, heritage and science
Registered2014Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Ww1 Aviation Heritage Trust Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hook. It was registered in April 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 08753767). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Ww1 Aviation Heritage Trust Ltd reported income of £11k and spending of £16k, spending 147% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £35k to £11k (-69%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Ww1 Aviation Heritage Trust Ltd sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Coker Rope & Sail CIO (£11k), Drunken Chorus (£11k) and John George Joicey Bequest (£11k).

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.

Income and spending

£0£9,016£18k£27k£36k2021 Income: £35,0082021 Spending: £14,96720212022 Income: £27,0252022 Spending: £22,47820222023 Income: £26,4542023 Spending: £36,06420232024 Income: £17,7222024 Spending: £18,85020242025 Income: £10,7422025 Spending: £15,7402025
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In the charity's own words

This Charity exists to advance education in the evolution of military aviation and the courage of the aircrews during the Great War through the establishment of a collection of WW1 aircraft - loaned and gifted (as occurred in WW1). The supporting purposes include basing the aircraft at Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome and mutually supporting their STEM initiative and their education programmes.

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