PORTSMOUTH NAVAL GLIDING CENTRE

Registered charity 1148381 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROMOTING, ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION IN AND PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR GLIDING AND SOARING; AND TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE ADULTHOOD BY ENCOURAGING VALUABLE PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND HIGH STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN PARTICULAR THROUGH GLIDING AND SOARING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES BASED ON THE CUSTOMS OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED (?THE OBJECTS?) ARE RESTRICTED TO: THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF HER MAJESTY?S ARMED FORCES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY FOSTERING ESPRIT DE CORPS AND RAISING MORALE OF MEMBERS OF THE NAVAL SERVICE AND THE AUXILIARIES, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) THROUGH PROMOTING, ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION IN AND PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR GLIDING AND SOARING; AND TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE ADULTHOOD BY ENCOURAGING VALUABLE PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND HIGH STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) THROUGH GLIDING AND SOARING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES BASED ON THE CUSTOMS OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Test Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had a net asset value of £310,250 and an operating deficit of £12,685 for the year ended 31 August 2025. The trustees note that current assets of £26,651 are barely sufficient to cover current liabilities of £20,668, describing this as a concern, though they expect profitability to improve when the tug operates properly. The Board does not consider that it has sufficient reserves but hopes to increase the bank balance in the coming year.

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

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• CAPTAIN DAVID DURSTONchair
• Jay Stewart
• MARTIN WILLIAM WESTWOOD MA FRAES · trustee of 1 other charity
• TONY WORLD FCMA, CGMA

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PETERSHAM AND HAM SEA SCOUT GROUP.

• THE PETERSHAM AND HAM SEA SCOUT GROUP income £147k
• THE PORTISHEAD NAUTICAL TRUST income £118k
• THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY income £16.2m
• NAUTICAL MUSEUMS TRUST LIMITED income £107k
• PORTSMOUTH ASSOCIATION FOR THE WELFARE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB income £8k
• THE WHIRLWIND CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k

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