PORTSMOUTH ROYAL MARITIME CLUB

Registered charity 1205660 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of recreational facilities to facilitate comradeship and support of seafarers - particularly members of the Royal Naval Service, its reserves, the RFA, QARNNS

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SEAFARERS BY PROVIDING A CLUB FOR ACCOMMODATION, RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION; AND2. THE RELIEF OF SEAFARERS AND FORMER SEAFARERS WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.3. THE TRUSTEES MAY PROVIDE THE CLUB FACILITIES AT A REDUCED CHARGE, OR FREE OF CHARGE, TO SEAFARERS WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.4. THE TRUSTEES MAY PROVIDE RELIGIOUS, USEFUL AND PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION TO SEAFARERS.5. THE LAND IDENTIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE TO THIS SCHEME MUST BE RETAINED BY THE TRUSTEES FOR USE FOR THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £131,542 from unrestricted funds for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to rising utility costs and interest rates. Despite this loss, total reserves increased to £3,733,824, driven by a £942,537 revaluation gain on freehold property. The trustees confirm the charity 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 MC Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: PORTSMOUTH ROYAL MARITIME CLUB Companies House CE034239

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Knight — Chief Executive (source)
• Mike Dawe — Chair (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 (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 37.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael John Dawechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charlotte Mary Steelsmith
• Colin Malcolm Henry
• Kate Cosco
• Martin Patrick Victor Duck
• Michael John Massey
• Nathan John Levison Batther
• Paul Anthony Quinn · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EXMOUTH ROWING CLUB.

• EXMOUTH ROWING CLUB income £36k
• THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY income £16.2m
• RUTLAND SAILABILITY income £263k
• THE MARINE SOCIETY AND SEA CADETS income £23.6m
• QUEEN MARY'S ROEHAMPTON TRUST income £479k
• NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL TRUST income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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