The British Airways Benevolent Fund

Analysis

The British Airways Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The British Airways Benevolent Fund reported income of £109k and spending of £104k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £99k to £109k (+10%), an average of +2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The British Airways Benevolent Fund 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 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Spa View Community Church (£109k), Chorley Help the Homeless (£109k) and St Mary Magdalen and St John the Baptist Hospitals Charity (£109k).