AAIR Charity

Name

AAIR Charity

Website

https://aaircharity.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Research Charity

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Disease-Specific Research & Support (e.g., Cancer, Diabetes, ALS) (BPAGACAA)

Keywords

• Asthma research funding
• Allergy disease research
• Charitable fundraising
• Inflammatory lung disease
• Medical research grants

Headquarters

HQ city

Southampton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

AAIR Charity is a UK non-profit organisation based in Southampton that raises funds to support research into asthma, allergy, and inflammatory lung disease. The charity solicits donations and channels proceeds toward medical research initiatives in respiratory and allergic disease areas.

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Direct peers

• Asthma + Lung UK: The UK's largest dedicated respiratory charity, funding research into asthma, COPD, and other lung diseases as well as campaigning and supporting patients. Directly comparable to AAIR Charity as a UK-based nonprofit funding respiratory research, though substantially larger in income and reach.
• Allergy UK: UK national charity dedicated to supporting people with allergies and funding allergy-related research and education. Directly comparable to AAIR given the explicit allergy research remit of both organizations.

Broad incumbents

• British Lung Foundation (now Asthma + Lung UK): Historical UK incumbent in lung disease research funding, now merged into Asthma + Lung UK. Comparable as a legacy respiratory-research charity with broader lung-disease scope than AAIR's narrower asthma/allergy/inflammatory focus.
• Medical Research Council (MRC): UK public-sector research funder that allocates significant grants to respiratory and inflammatory disease research. Comparable to AAIR in that it channels funds into the same research category, though as a government body rather than a donor-funded charity.
• British Thoracic Society: UK professional society for respiratory clinicians and researchers that supports research, education, and standards in respiratory medicine. Comparable as an established UK organization operating in the same respiratory research ecosystem.
• Wellcome Trust: Large UK-based global charitable foundation that funds significant biomedical and respiratory research. Comparable to AAIR as a research-grantmaking UK charity, though operating at vastly greater scale and broader scientific remit.

Emerging players

• Cure Asthma initiative charities (collective): Smaller, often locally founded UK charities and foundations focused specifically on asthma cure research and inflammatory airway disease. Comparable to AAIR in scale and narrow disease remit, representing the peer set of similarly-sized niche respiratory research funders.

Regional players

• National Asthma Council Australia: Australian not-for-profit focused on asthma education, guidelines, and supporting asthma research. Comparable to AAIR in mission and disease focus, though serving a different national geography.
• American Lung Association: Major US-based nonprofit funding lung disease research, advocacy, and education, including asthma and allergy. Comparable to AAIR in disease focus and nonprofit grantmaking model, but operating primarily in the United States.

Others

• European Respiratory Society: International professional society advancing respiratory medicine and research across Europe. Comparable to AAIR as part of the broader respiratory research ecosystem, though it is a professional membership organization rather than a dedicated research-funding charity.

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Competitive moat2 records

Key risks3 records

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