WORLD SHIP SOCIETY LTD.

Registered charity 1139902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WSS

The main activities of the World Ship Society are advancing and supporting interest in, understanding of, study of, and research into ships, shipping and related matters.

Objects

TO AROUSE, STIMULATE AND MAINTAIN INTEREST IN SHIPS, SHIPPING AND RELATED MATTERS AMONGST THE GENERAL PUBLIC; TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING OF THESE SUBJECTS AND THEIR RICH HERITAGE BY COMPILING, PUBLISHING AND PRESERVING RECORDS AND ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIAL CONCERNING SHIPS AND THEIR PART IN MERCANTILE AND NAVAL ACTIVITY; AND TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN CURRENT AND HISTORICAL NAUTICAL AFFAIRS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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 holds unrestricted reserves of £307,895, with no specific reserves policy in place. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern, noting that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient given the current level of funds.

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 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dennis Maccoychair
• Dr DAVID WALKER
• Dr ROY STEPHEN FENTON BA PHD
• Iain McCall · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHANNES HENRICUS MORNOUT
• JOHN MARSHALL WILLIAMS BA FCA
• KRISPEN ATKINSON
• MICHAEL KAHLER
• WILLIAM MAYES FCA FRSA

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

Operates in: Argentina · Australia · Belgium · Brazil · Canada · Denmark · Finland · France · Germany · Gibraltar · Greece · Hong Kong

Income and spending

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