Common questions about Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial a good charity? +
Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial scores 92 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 64% 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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial as a registered charity (charity number 516766). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=516766&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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's charity number? +
Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's charity number is 516766. 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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's charity rating? +
Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial scores 92 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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial. 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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 64% of Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial'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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 13% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 14% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial. Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £60,001–£70,000 (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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial receive? +
Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial reported £1.5m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial based? +
Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's registered contact address is in York (YO41 4AU). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £60,001–£70,000 (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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's money come from? +
Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial reported £1.5m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £795k (54%), trading and fundraising events £520k (36%), donations and legacies £119k (8%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £34k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial? +
The register records Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial 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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's trustees paid? +
Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial: The Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial Limited.
When was Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial registered as a charity? +
Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial was entered on the register on 4 November 1985. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 01926148).
How does CharityCompare score Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial'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 Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial'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.