RESCUE WOODEN BOATS

Registered charity 1144180 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To acquire, restore, preserve, maintain display and use for public benefit, heritage wooden boats and other wooden maritime vessels and so advance public education in the historical significance of such boats and vessels and the skills and crafts used in their construction, maintenance and use.

Objects

TO ACQUIRE, RESTORE, PRESERVE, MAINTAIN, DISPLAY AND USE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, HERITAGE WOODEN BOATS AND OTHER WOODEN MARITIME VESSELS AND SO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SUCH BOATS AND VESSELS AND THE SKILLS AND CRAFTS USED IN THEIR CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND USE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Rescue Wooden Boats ended the 2025 financial year with a small deficit of £1,635, which represented 8.1% of its reserves. The trustees describe the charity as being in a stable financial position and holding £18,317 in unrestricted reserves against a policy target of six months of operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• David Hewittt
• Dr Robin Henry West
• Henry Robert Easter Faire
• Jonathan Freegard
• Jonathan Miles Bevan
• Kurt William Janson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Linda Helen West
• Simon Garnier
• Wendy Ann Witherby Pritchard
• William Darby · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WOODEN CANAL BOAT SOCIETY LIMITED.

• THE WOODEN CANAL BOAT SOCIETY LIMITED income £66k
• THE NARROW BOAT TRUST LIMITED income £31k
• THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION income £286.7m
• THE WOODLAND TRUST income £89.4m
• HERITAGE MARINE FOUNDATION income £47k
• EAST MANCHESTER COMMUNITY BOAT PROJECT income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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