MERCHANT NAVY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1135661 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC052677 (OSCR)

The Merchant Navy Association is a maritime charity that represents all seafarers in the UK and has the additional benefit of MNA branches in local communities. The objectives remain as stated in our constitution and our activities focus on meeting the needs of the seafaring community, both ashore and afloat, especially in times of hardship, sickness, bereavement and times of conflict.

Objects

2.1 TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST ALL SERVING AND RETIRED SEAFARERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF POVERTY, DISABILITY, SICKNESS, INFIRMITY OR OTHERWISE; TO SUPPORT THE FAMILIES OF SEAFARERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN SERVICE OR RETIREMENT.2.2 TO EDUCATE THE WIDER PUBLIC ON THE ROLE, PURPOSE AND HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING FLEETS AND TO SUPPORT THOSE INTERESTED IN A CAREER AT SEA.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 unrestricted cash held was £153,525, which exceeds the stated reserves policy target of covering at least 12 months of operational costs. The charity reported a profit of £29,997 for the year, though the trustees note this was reliant on donations and warn that falling membership and loss of donations could create financial difficulty.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• 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

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Merchant Navy Association (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Captain Ian Hodgechair
• ALAN SPEIGHT
• ANTHONY PETER HILDER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Captain Charles Cecil Woodward AFNI
• Captain Henry Bryan Anthony Richard Andrews-Tipler BSc AFNI · trustee of 2 other charities
• Francis Edward Kelly
• Gerard Michael McGeever
• Ian George Purvey
• Kenneth John Usher
• Michael Wootton
• Paul Bernard Minter · trustee of 2 other charities
• ROY GLENCROSS
• Richard Stephen Saunders Evans
• Sharon Coveney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen William Todd
• Timothy Michael Brant MNMM FGI

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MERCHANT NAVY WELFARE BOARD.

• MERCHANT NAVY WELFARE BOARD income £808k
• THE MARINE SOCIETY AND SEA CADETS income £23.6m
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MARITIME ASSOCIATION income £231k
• THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF MASTER MARINERS AND HOWARD LEOPOLD DAVIS CHARITY income £85k
• THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY income £1.6m
• Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity income £5.8m

Side by side with its peers

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