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The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association

60 /100

Clarity score

Needs improvement

Charity accounts, evidence & financial rating

60/100 Clarity Score · 3 stars · Charity Commission filings · How we score

Register checked 4 October 2026 · latest accounts 2024

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Is The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association a good charity?

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association scores 60/100 (3 stars, Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, calculated from its UK regulator filings. Its latest accounts year is 2024 (£592k total income, cause-spend split not disclosed). This reflects financial transparency and stewardship on paper — not the real-world impact of its programmes. See the full breakdown.

Income

£592k

Accounts 2024-12-31

Spending

£602k

Accounts 2024-12-31

Charitable activities

Not disclosed

No separate spending figure

Accounts filing

Late

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What does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association do?

The purpose of the Association is to provide opportunities for serving RAF personnel to participate in winter sports. There are two key annual events organised by the Association, the RAF Alpine Championships, which are held at Saalbach-Hinterglemm each year and the indoor Championships held in the UK in the autumn.

Activities reported by the charity on the official register · extract . This is separate from the accounts data used for its rating.

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How much does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association raise and spend?

Accounts period 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Source: Charity Commission filings

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association revenue and expenses for 2024
Category Amount % of spend
Total income £592k —
Total expenditure £602k —
Charitable activities Not disclosed —
Fundraising £0 0%
Reported governance £0 0%

Governance can already be allocated within other expenditure categories. It is not a separate measure of all administration costs; do not add these rows without checking the accounts notes.

What changed in The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association’s latest accounts?

Reported totals for 2024 compared with 2023. Changes can reflect the accounting period, restricted grants or restructuring as well as the charity’s work.

Income change
+33.5%
£443k → £592k
Spending change
+26.0%
£478k → £602k
Charitable activities share
Not disclosed
Both years need a disclosed spending split.

These are annual figures. The Clarity Score may use averages across several disclosed years. Source: official accounts.

Where does the money go?

Latest accounts (2024) · £602k spent. Not disclosed in this filing — the Charity Commission return omits the charitable-activities split.

From the annual return

What does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association pay its staff, and where does its money come from?

Answers The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association gave in its annual return to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 2024, plus its register entry. These are the charity's own disclosures, not part of the Clarity Score.

Where does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's money come from?

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association reported £592k total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £280k (47%), charitable activities £174k (29%), trading and fundraising events £137k (23%).

  • Donations and legacies £280k · 47%
  • Charitable activities (fees and contracts) £174k · 29%
  • Trading and fundraising events £137k · 23%

Cash at year end: £132k · unrestricted funds: £273k · restricted funds: £0. Restricted funds can only be spent on purposes set by the donor.

Can I claim Gift Aid, and are the trustees paid?

The register does not record The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

Registration details

Registered as a charity
Company number
07002524 (Companies House)
Where it says it operates
Throughout England and Wales

Source: Charity Commission register and annual return data, Open Government Licence v3.0. A blank answer in the return is shown as not reported, never as “no”.

How have The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's finances changed over five years?

Income rose 312% from £144k in 2021 to £592k in 2024; spending was £602k in 2024.

£0 £200k £400k £600k £800k 2021 2022 2022 2023 2024 Income 2021: £144k Spending 2021: £42k Income 2022: £285k Spending 2022: £426k Income 2022: £293k Spending 2022: £197k Income 2023: £443k Spending 2023: £478k Income 2024: £592k Spending 2024: £602k
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The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association income and spending by accounts year
Year Income Spending Charitable activities
2024 £592k £602k Not disclosed
2023 £443k £478k Not disclosed
2022 £293k £197k Not disclosed
2022 £285k £426k Not disclosed
2021 £144k £42k Not disclosed

Cause spend is plotted only when the filing discloses a split · Source: Charity Commission filings

How does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association compare?

The share of each group scoring at or below The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association, including tied scores. A group matched on cause, income band and accounts year appears when at least ten records qualify. Broader groups below may mix reporting periods and operating models. Groups include this charity; percentiles measure our financial rating, not impact.

Income band (£500k–£1m) 11thpercentile

Scores at or above 11% of 2,127 charities in its income band · 60/100 vs 78 peer average.

Armed forces charities 20thpercentile

Scores at or above 20% of 82 charities in this cause · 60/100 vs 72 peer average.

How does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association compare, and where else can you look?

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Evidence and interpretation

What the evidence says about The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association

In 2024, reported income was £591,592 and expenditure was £601,557. Expenditure exceeded income by £9,965. This annual balance is not the charity’s available cash or unrestricted reserves.

More financial context

Income rose 33.5% compared with 2023. Read the accounts notes for restricted grants, legacies and one-off receipts before treating the movement as a trend.

Calculated from our dated accounts dataset, refreshed 2026-09-06. This is not an audit or a manual review of every filing. Original register and accounts · How calculations work.

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Who it supports and how to access its work

Reported beneficiaries: Other Defined Groups.

How it works: Other Charitable Activities.

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Classifications supplied to the register; extract 2026-10-04. Register contact and activity details · Website listed for this charity

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Results and impact evidence

We have not added a source-checked programme outcome for this charity. That is a gap in this profile, not evidence that the charity has no impact. Its annual report may contain results that have not been assessed here.

Reported grants to institutions: £0 (2024-12-31). This is spending reported in the annual return, not a measure of beneficiary outcomes or an open grant opportunity. It may already be included in charitable expenditure. Check the source accounts.

What these results can tell you

Counts of services delivered describe activity. They do not by themselves establish lasting change, what would have happened without the programme, or cost-effectiveness. Results with different definitions, populations or years should not be ranked against each other.

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What is The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's Beacon report?

Detailed accountability and finance metrics from UK regulator filings — structured for transparency in our four-beacon report.

Accountability & Transparency

Baseline trust from filing discipline, board oversight, and declared governance policies.

55/100

Accountability & Transparency metrics for The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association
Metric Score Value
Filing history (5 years)

No recorded lateness in available history = 15 pts · one late filing = 5 pts · two or more or unknown status = 0 pts. Missing data is not proof of late filing.

 0% 0/15 pts
Trustee oversight

Three or more trustees on the register = 15 pts, scaled down for fewer (governance red flag below three).

 100% 8 trustees · 15/15 pts
Declared policies

Safeguarding (4) · conflict of interest (3) · volunteer management (3) — from Charity Commission annual return.

 70% 7/10 pts

Financial Health

Stability and solvency — reserves, revenue trend, and debt from Charity Commission accounts.

60/100

Financial Health metrics for The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association
Metric Score Value
Reserves (months of expenditure)

3–24 months = full marks, tapering on both sides · 0 months or 4+ years = 0 pts. Reserves are not necessarily cash; needs vary by operating model.

 100% 8 months · 15/15 pts
Income stability / growth

+20% or more over the window = 10 pts · flat = 5 pts · −20% or worse = 0 pts, scaled between.

 0% Comparability review needed · 0/10 pts
Liabilities to assets

0% liabilities-to-assets = 5 pts, scaling down to 0 pts at 60%+ debt.

 60% 21% · 3/5 pts

Financial Efficiency

How efficiently funds reach the cause — program spend and fundraising cost ratios.

50/100

Financial Efficiency metrics for The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association
Metric Score Value
Program expense ratio

90%+ on charitable activities = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 50% or below.

 0% Not stated · 0/10 pts
Fundraising efficiency

≤10p to raise £1 = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 40p or above (fundraising cost ÷ income).

 100% 0p per £1 income · 10/10 pts (Latest year, disclosed years)

Community Support

Grassroots backing from Charity Commission workforce data — volunteers vs paid staff.

100/100

Community Support metrics for The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association
Metric Score Value
Volunteer-to-staff ratio

Volunteers at 2x staff or more = full marks · no volunteers = 0 pts, scaled between.

 100% 34 volunteers / 0 staff · 10/10 pts

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What trust indicators does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association have?

Pulled from the Charity Commission register — filing behaviour, board size, and workforce where reported.

  • Accounts filed on time

    Filing status: late

  • Trustee board size (3–12)

    8 trustees on the Charity Commission register

  • Workforce on register

    0 employees · 34 volunteers

Fundraising Regulator

Status not yet checked

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Official register

Reg 1133113

Full trustee list, accounts, and regulatory history on the Charity Commission.

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Trustees & officers

  • Brian Wood
  • Martin Leonard Cunningham Chair · since 2017
  • Nicola Jane Duncan since 2017
  • Michael Wada Waring since 2020
  • Group Captain Louise Ann Henton since 2022
  • Chloe Marie Jordan since 2025
  • Jonathan Young since 2025
  • James Sjoberg since 2025

How reliable is The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's data?

Source
Charity Commission (England & Wales)
Accounts year
2024
Filing date
Data refreshed

Medium confidence — some data missing or late

Scores reflect the accounts in our dated data extract. The live register may contain newer filings. Clarity Score measures how clearly the charity accounts for money in those filings — not programme impact.

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Financial source extract: 2026-09-06. Organisation identifier: 4048624. Method version: 1.1. View method changes.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Open Government Licence v3.0 .

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  2. 2. Read the accounts in context

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How we score charities +

The Clarity Score is a 100-point rating from UK regulator filings (Charity Commission for England and Wales, OSCR and CCNI). Four pillars — Accountability & Transparency (40), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10) — each scored on a continuous scale, not pass/fail cutoffs. A statutory inquiry sets the score to 0 automatically.

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Accountability & Transparency

Scored from filings

40 points — filing history (15), trustee oversight (15, scaling up to a board of three or more), declared policies (10).

Financial Health

Scored from filings

30 points — reserves (15, full marks 3–24 months, tapering on both sides), income stability (10), liabilities to assets (5, scaling down as debt rises).

Financial Efficiency

Scored from filings

20 points — program expense ratio and fundraising cost, each on a graduated scale (not a single cutoff). Kept at 20% of the total: financial-ratio scoring alone is not a reliable effectiveness signal (see "why not just an overhead ratio?" below).

Community Support

Scored from filings

10 points — volunteer-to-staff ratio from Charity Commission workforce data, scaling continuously up to a 2:1 ratio.

Overall score

Sum of all pillar points. Display stars use the same bands as the labels: 90–100 → 5★ Exceptional; 75–89 → 4★ Good; 60–74 → 3★ Needs improvement; 1–59 → 2★ Poor; 0 → not rated.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.

Is The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association a good charity? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association scores 60 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Its recent filings do not disclose a charitable-activities spend split and its accounts are late. 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 The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association a legitimate charity? +

The register data used for this profile lists The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association as a registered charity (charity number 1133113). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1133113&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 The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's charity number? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's charity number is 1133113. 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 The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's charity rating? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association scores 60 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association have reviews and complaints? +

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

How much of my donation reaches The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association does not disclose a charitable-activities spend split in its recent UK regulator filings, so there is no official figure for how much of a donation reaches the cause. CharityCompare reports this as "not disclosed" rather than assuming a number.

What are The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's overheads? +

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 0% of expenditure (2024); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.

How much income does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association receive? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association reported £592k total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.

Are The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's accounts up to date? +

Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Where is The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association based? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's registered contact address is in Hemel Hempstead (HP22 5PG). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on armed forces.

Where does The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's money come from? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association reported £592k total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £280k (47%), charitable activities £174k (29%), trading and fundraising events £137k (23%).

Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association? +

The register does not record The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.

Are The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's trustees paid? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

When was The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association registered as a charity? +

The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association was entered on the register on 3 December 2009. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07002524).

How does CharityCompare score The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association? +

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association'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 The Royal Air Force Winter Sports Alpine Association's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.