Aviation Environment Trust

Analysis

Aviation Environment Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Aviation Environment Trust reported income of £235k and spending of £222k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £128k to £235k (+83%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 65% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Aviation Environment Trust sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saiga Conservation Alliance (£234k), The Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust (£235k) and The Kent Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (£232k).