THE NAUTICAL INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1002462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£6.9m

Latest spending

£5.5m

Registered

1991

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income

£6.9m

Total spending

£5.5m

Cost of raising funds

£707k

Reserves (reported)

£4.6m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (28/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (03/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

CAPTAIN DUNCAN TELFER FNI
Captain DARIUSZ JACEK GOZDZIK
Captain David Snider
Captain Graham Cowling FNI
Captain Ivor Goveas
Captain Nicholas Nash
Captain Yves Vandenborn
Deirdre Lane
Philip Henry Gordon Naylor
Professor Colin David Dewey
Robert David Hildebrand
Stuart Duncan Edmonston

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Bangladesh · Belgium · Brazil · Bulgaria · Burma · Canada · China · Cyprus · Denmark · Estonia · Germany

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£6.9m	£5.5m
31/12/2024	£5.8m	£5.4m
31/12/2023	£5.4m	£4.3m
31/12/2022	£4.1m	£3.5m
31/12/2021	£3.7m	£3.0m

Common questions

Who funds THE NAUTICAL INSTITUTE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE NAUTICAL INSTITUTE as a grant recipient include INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AIDS TO NAVIGATION, The Seafarers' Charity (King George's Fund for Sailors), LLOYD'S REGISTER FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AIDS TO NAVIGATION	FY2021	£98k
The Seafarers' Charity (King George's Fund for Sailors)	FY2024	£60k
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AIDS TO NAVIGATION	FY2024	£39k
LLOYD'S REGISTER FOUNDATION	FY2025	£10k