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Registered charity 1169061 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support the work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased to £21,524,894, while total resources expended were £19,323,768, resulting in a net movement in funds of £2,662,255. The Trustees report that free reserves stood at £4,851,000, which is below the stated policy target of £6,950,000, though the charity remains in a position to continue as a going concern with adequate resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Philip Jones — Chair (source)
• Sarah Dennis — Executive Director (source)
• Andrew Baines — Executive Director (source)
• Helen McKenna Aspell — Associate Executive Director (source)
• Emma Allen — Associate Executive Director (source)
• Lyn Andrews — Associate Executive Director (source)
• Charlotte Stone — Associate Executive Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (57% 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: 13.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD HATFIELD CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Mark Pemberton · trustee of 3 other charities
• Jane Dean
• Kathleen Janet Barnes
• Matthew Sheldon
• Michael James Bedingfield DL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rear ADMIRAL Jonathan Pentreath

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY.

• THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY income £13.7m
• NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL TRUST income £2.4m
• ROYAL NAVY MUSEUMS income £19.7m
• FLY NAVY HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• ROYAL NAVY WINTER SPORTS ASSOCIATION income £700k
• NATIONAL NUMERACY income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.