THE MISSION TO SEAFARERS

Registered charity 1123613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7751762 · Wikipedia · also known as THE MISSION TO SEAFARERS LIMITED

The Mission to Seafarers, a charity and part of the Anglican church, is represented in over 200 ports around the world offering emergency assistance, practical support and a friendly welcome to crews. Whether caring for victims of piracy or providing a lifeline to those stranded in foreign ports, we are there for the globe's 1.5 million merchant seafarers of all ranks, nationalities and beliefs.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE SPIRITUAL, MORAL AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING OF SEAFARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WORLD-WIDE.

Area of benefit: WOLDWIDE

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £1.84 million for the year, driven by an investment loss of £1.069 million and an operating loss of £736,000. Despite this, the trustees confirm that unrestricted general reserves of £26.951 million remain above their stated policy target of three years' expenditure, providing sufficient liquidity to maintain operations and support seafarers.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 8 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

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 06220240
• Trading subsidiary: THE FLYING ANGEL BELFAST LIMITED Companies House NI605252
• Trading subsidiary: THE MISSION TO SEAFARERS SCOTLAND LIMITED Companies House SC389483

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Mission To Seafarers (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.

• PLATTEN, Guy St John — director, appointed 30/04/2026on trustee list
• TREMLETT, Andrew, The Very Revd — director, appointed 30/04/2026on trustee list
• SUTTON, Jeremy David — director, appointed 17/03/2025on trustee list
• LENNON, Amanda Maria — director, appointed 29/01/2025on trustee list
• DAVIS, Karen Marie, Captain — director, appointed 29/01/2025on trustee list
• FRANKLIN, Anisha Stephanie — director, appointed 31/01/2024on trustee list
• RODRIGUES, Neale Francis — director, appointed 31/01/2024on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Gary Ivan — director, appointed 30/01/2023on trustee list
• POWER, Micheal Andrew, The Venerable — director, appointed 30/01/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Timothy John — director, appointed 25/01/2022on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, David Grant, The Rt Revd — director, appointed 09/10/2019on trustee list
• COTTRELL, Peter James — director, appointed 24/04/2019on trustee list
• OSARENREN, Dorothy — secretary, appointed 30/01/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~62.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANISHA STEPHANIE FRANKLIN
• Amanda Maria Lennon
• Captain Karen Marie Davis
• Gary Ivan Chapman
• Guy St John Platten
• Jeremy David Sutton
• Neale Francis Rodrigues
• Peter James Cottrell
• Rt Rev David Grant Williams · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Venerable Michael Andrew Power · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Very Revd Andrew Tremlett · trustee of 4 other charities
• Timothy John Smith

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

Operates in: Australia · Bahrain · Belgium · Brazil · Cyprus · France · Hong Kong · India · Japan · Jordan · Kenya · Netherlands

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 Seafarers' Charity (King George's Fund for Sailors).

• The Seafarers' Charity (King George's Fund for Sailors) income £3.9m
• LIVERPOOL SEAFARERS CENTRE income £518k
• THE MERSEY MISSION TO SEAFARERS income £166k
• ROYAL NATIONAL MISSION TO DEEP SEA FISHERMEN income £3.8m
• THE I T F SEAFARERS TRUST income £852k
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MARITIME ASSOCIATION income £231k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.