MERCHANT NAVY WELFARE BOARD

Registered charity 212799 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC039669 (OSCR)

Umbrella charity co-ordinating and supporting the welfare work of maritime charities assisting merchant seafarers and their families in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds amounted to £18,271,105, significantly exceeding the designated reserves policy of £1,000,000. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £839,467, driven primarily by investment gains, while operating costs were covered by investment income and grants.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Department for Transport — “Department for Transport” (source page)
• The TK Foundation — “receiving funding from the Merchant Navy Welfare Board (MNWB) and The TK Foundation.” (source page)

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 9.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW KEITH CASSELSchair
• ANDREW JONES
• Adrian Hodgson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander Campbell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Darren Procter · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Appleton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gemma Griffin
• Justin Osmond · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kenneth Usher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Sara
• Marc Evans
• Mike Cohen
• NATASHA Barley
• Rachel Lynch
• Richard Ballantyne
• Richard Mark Welch
• TIMOTHY EDWARD SPRINGETT BA

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

Operates in: Gibraltar · Northern Ireland · 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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NAUTILUS WELFARE FUND.

• NAUTILUS WELFARE FUND income £4.0m
• The Seafarers' Charity (King George's Fund for Sailors) income £3.9m
• THE I T F SEAFARERS TRUST income £1.5m
• THE MERCHANT SEAMEN'S WAR MEMORIAL SOCIETY (INCORPORATED) income £1.4m
• SAILORS' SOCIETY income £1.6m
• THE CONWAY MERCHANT NAVY TRUST income £132k

Side by side with its peers

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