Common questions about Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Mission Aviation Fellowship UK a good charity? +
Mission Aviation Fellowship UK scores 94 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 82% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Mission Aviation Fellowship UK a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Mission Aviation Fellowship UK as a registered charity (charity number 1064598). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1064598&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's charity number? +
Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's charity number is 1064598. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's charity rating? +
Mission Aviation Fellowship UK scores 94 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Mission Aviation Fellowship UK have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Mission Aviation Fellowship UK. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Mission Aviation Fellowship UK? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 82% of Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 18% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 18% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Mission Aviation Fellowship UK. Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Mission Aviation Fellowship UK receive? +
Mission Aviation Fellowship UK reported £17m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-05-22). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Mission Aviation Fellowship UK based? +
Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's registered contact address is in Canterbury (CT20 2TQ). It tells the regulator it operates in Australia, Chad, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Nepal, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's money come from? +
Mission Aviation Fellowship UK reported £17m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £17m (99%), investments £156k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £6m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Mission Aviation Fellowship UK? +
The register records Mission Aviation Fellowship UK as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's trustees paid? +
Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Mission Aviation Fellowship UK previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Mission Aviation Fellowship UK: Mission Aviation Fellowship UK Limited.
When was Mission Aviation Fellowship UK registered as a charity? +
Mission Aviation Fellowship UK was entered on the register on 25 September 1997. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03437446).
How does CharityCompare score Mission Aviation Fellowship UK? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Mission Aviation Fellowship UK's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.