THE NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY

Registered charity 210836 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Publishes volumes of naval history.

Objects

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE SOCIETY SHALL BE TO FOSTER AND FACILITATE AN UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE HISTORY, ORGANISATION AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE NAVY BY:·SELECTING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING DOCUMENTS (INCLUDING IMAGES, FILM ETC) THAT ARE RELEVANT TO THESE THEMES AND APPROPRIATE TO SCHOLARS, SERVING PERSONNEL AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC·REPRODUCING RARE OR GENERALLY INACCESSIBLE WORKS OF NAVAL INTEREST, AND·REPRODUCING TRANSLATIONS OF SIMILAR MANUSCRIPTS OR WORKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Society remains financially robust and generated a small operating surplus despite unavoidable cost increases. Membership numbers have continued to increase gradually, currently standing at just over 800. The Society is confident that the anticipated outlay for a major website upgrade will prove well worthwhile, although it will adversely affect the financial outcome for 2026/7.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Martin Howard Wilcox
• Dr Matthew Heaslip
• Dr Timothy John Dougall
• Nicholas Blake

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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