ROYAL NAVAL SAILING ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1183562 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RNSA · also registered in Scotland as SC053115 (OSCR)

The RNSA is a Service Sports Association that delivers the sport of sailing and associated activities for the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and their associated Reserve Forces. We operate across the UK and aim to get Service men and women of all sailing abilities actively engaged in our sport. We passionately believe sailing is an ideal vehicle for improving personal skills and military efficiency.

Causes: Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted income was fairly steady at £352,619, while total income rose to £551,324 due to major grants for a new race boat. The charity reports a strong financial position with a fund balance of £1,451,444 and notes that it remains in a strong financial position with adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

Automated summary of the FY2023 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Philip Warwick — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Heather Tarr — Deputy CEO (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)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% 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: 4.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Christopher Reginald Summer Gardner KBEchair
• Edward Henry Charles Stainton
• General Gwyn Jenkins CB OBE ADC
• Henry Wilson
• James Landale · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Jay
• Katrina Daniels
• Mark Fox
• Miles Arthur Bradbury

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 NAVAL ASSOCIATION.

• THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION income £705k
• ROYAL AIR FORCE SAILING ASSOCIATION income £135k
• ARMY SAILING ASSOCIATION income £963k
• THE ROYAL NAVY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION income £193k
• ROYAL NAVY WINTER SPORTS ASSOCIATION income £700k
• UK SAILING ACADEMY income £8.8m

Side by side with its peers

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