WEST WALES MARITIME HERITAGE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1042428 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Acquire, restore, maintain and use marine craft of historical interest.Sail and or display craft at maritime festivals and other events.Research maritime and linked history related to West Wales.Disseminate this information through displays, publications and other means.

Objects

1) THE PROMOTION OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MARITIME HISTORY AND THE SCIENCE OF SHIPPING AND RELATED SUBJECTS CAPABLE OF ACADEMIC STUDY. 2) THE PRESERVATION OF VESSELS, BUILDINGS AND SITES OF HISTORICAL OR LOCAL INTEREST.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's main funding sources are donations, member subscriptions, rental income, grants, and fundraising events. The trustees have approved the report, but no financial figures, reserves, or audit status are disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02611959

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PREECE, Steven John — director, appointed 04/08/2026on trustee list
• EUSTACE, Donna Maria — director, appointed 11/03/2025on trustee list
• PREECE, Steven John — secretary, appointed 01/07/2026

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Millard
• Donna Eustace
• Philip Adrian Jones
• Steven Preece

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).