THE NAVIGATORS UK LIMITED

Registered charity 1099148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC038484 (OSCR)

The advancement of Christian religion in the UK and overseas through evangelism, teaching, mentoring, training and distribution of materials and by such other means being charitable as the organisation shall determine.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS THROUGH EVANGELISM, TEACHING, MENTORING, TRAINING, AND THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS BEING CHARITABLE AS THE ORGANISATION SHALL DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southampton, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased to £1,961,319, with unrestricted free reserves and buffer funds held at £300,299. Per the trustees' report, this reserve position is above the calculated minimum policy target of £263,518, though it remains below the midpoint target of £455,118. The trustees have set a deficit budget for the following year, supported by the charity's strong balance sheet and ongoing donor support.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burton Sweet Ltd. Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04429021

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Navigators UK (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• SAUNDERS, Michael David — director, appointed 12/06/2026on trustee list
• GIBSON-SMITH, Susan, Dr — director, appointed 21/10/2024on trustee list
• INUSA, Baba Pslam Duniya, Dr — director, appointed 12/02/2024on trustee list
• WEXLER, Stephen Nicholas — director, appointed 26/06/2023on trustee list
• CRAIG, Alison Macleod — director, appointed 20/04/2022on trustee list
• HERON, Helen Laura — director, appointed 07/04/2020on trustee list
• WROE, Simon Neville — director, appointed 26/11/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (92% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIMON NEVILLE WROEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alison MacLeod Craig
• Dr Baba Psalm Duniya Inusa · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Susan Gibson-Smith
• Helen Laura Heron
• Michael David Saunders · trustee of 3 other charities
• Stephen Nicholas Wexler

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Cardiff · Ethiopia · France · Germany · Ghana · Hungary · Ivory Coast · Kenya · Mali · Netherlands

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OVERSEAS BISHOPRICS' FUND.

• THE OVERSEAS BISHOPRICS' FUND income £526k
• Seafarers' Christian Friend Society income £334k
• CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK (UK) income £1.7m
• 24-7 PRAYER income £5.3m
• JOURNEY UK income £103k
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MARITIME ASSOCIATION income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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