RNLI LIFESAVING ENDOWMENT

Registered charity 1184013 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity shall establish, build and invest an endowment fund for the RNLI.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF SAVING LIVES AT SEA BY ESTABLISHING, BUILDING AND INVESTING AN ENDOWMENT FUND WHICH IS CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING THE RNLIÆS RESCUE SERVICES.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds £62.9M in expendable endowment funds, with total income of £528,000 and a net surplus of £6,107,000 for the year ended 31 December 2025. The Trustees have approved a proposal to transfer the charity's assets to the RNLI and subsequently close the charity, a process anticipated to take between one and three years. Despite this planned closure, the Trustees and auditors have concluded that there are no material uncertainties related to the charity's ability to continue as a going concern during this period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (99% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Denis Woulfe
• EDWARD FREDERIC COLIN DONALDSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jamshaid Islam · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Legrand · trustee of 3 other charities
• Mark Gregory Wordsworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul O'Leary
• Robert Boddington

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

Operates in: 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 R M SALES CHARITABLE TRUST.

• R M SALES CHARITABLE TRUST income £0
• ROMODHAM TRUST income £53k
• NEWLIFE TRUST income £35k
• SUPPORTING LIVES income £134k
• LOUIS NICHOLAS RESIDUARY CHARITABLE TRUST income £994k
• PROJECT GIVING BACK income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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