ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH FOUNDATION
Registered charity 1147279 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MARITIME FOUNDATION
The Foundation provides funds to advance, as far as may be exclusively charitable, the education of the public in the sea, ships, time and the stars, and their importance and relationship with people, in particular (but without limitation) by promoting or supporting such of the charitable objects of the National Maritime Museum as the Trustees of Charity shall determine from time to time.
Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £636,119 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant shift from the net income of £2,489,338 in the prior year. Despite this deficit, unrestricted reserves remained substantial at £12,422,608, which the Trustees confirm is in line with their established reserves policy. The charity maintains a strong liquidity position with cash assets of £12.63m and confirms it is a going concern with no material uncertainties.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)
Reserves (reported)
£13.1m
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH FOUNDATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £636,119 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant shift from the net income of £2,489,338 in the prior year. Despite this deficit, unrestricted reserves remained substantial at £12,422,608, which the Trustees confirm is in line with their established reserves policy. The charity maintains a strong liquidity position with cash assets of £12.63m and confirms it is a going concern with no material uncertainties. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.
Who funds ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH FOUNDATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
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 GREENWICH FOUNDATION FOR THE OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE.
Side by side with its peers
Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.