THE CORNISH MARITIME TRUST

Registered charity 1037745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C M T

Restoration and display of historic sailing vessels for the education of the public

Objects

TO PROVIDE FOR THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF THE NATION, WORKING HISTORICAL VESSELS THEIR APPURTENANCES AND OTHER OBJECTS CONECTED WITH MARITIME OPERATIONS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £18,234, which is below the trustees' stated optimum target of £12,000 (though the policy defines the target as enabling 12 months of objectives, the actual figure exceeds the specific 'optimum' number cited). The charity reported a surplus of £1,068 for the year, with total income of £36,009 and expenditure of £34,941, indicating stable operational finances without reliance on external funding for immediate continuity.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 08/11/2022, 8 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Cornish Maritime Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Need
• Ian Woodford
• John Robert BROOKS
• Robert McDowell
• Toby Floyer

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OCEAN TRUST.

• THE OCEAN TRUST income £145k
• HOLYHEAD MARITIME MUSEUM LTD income £89k
• THE NORFOLK HERITAGE FLEET TRUST income £479k
• MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £336k
• NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL TRUST income £2.4m
• WHITLINGHAM BOATHOUSES FOUNDATION LTD income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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