THE PORTISHEAD NAUTICAL TRUST

Registered charity 228876 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust aims to relieve and assist young persons under the age of 25 who suffer deprivation, poverty, financial hardship or difficulty, parental neglect, lack of control or other misfortune.

Objects

TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST YOUNG PERSONS WHO HAVE NOT ATTAINED THE AGE OF 25 YEARS AND WHO SUFFER DEPRIVATION,POVERTY,FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR DIFFICULTY,PARENTAL NEGLECT,LACK OF CONTROL,OR OTHER MISFORTUNE.FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,304,432, representing a net increase from the previous year. The trustees report a strong financial position supported by investment income and note that charitable expenditure was slightly less than incoming resources. No material uncertainties or risks to going concern were identified in the filing.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00087906

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• STONE, Alison Jayne — director, appointed 26/10/2021on trustee list
• WOODHEAD, Conrad Martin — director, appointed 30/04/2019on trustee list
• MARGERISON, Patricia Anne May — director, appointed 31/10/2017on trustee list
• MCPHERSON, Anne Felicity — director, appointed 28/04/2015on trustee list
• DINGLEY-BROWN, Peter Charles — director, appointed 18/10/2011not on trustee list
• CROSSMAN, Colin — director, appointed 24/04/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Felicity McPhersonchair
• Alison Jayne Stone
• COLIN CROSSMAN
• Conrad Martin Woodhead
• PATRICIA ANNE MAY MARGERISON · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER CHARLES DINGLEY-BROWN FCCA

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

Operates in: Bristol City · North Somerset · Somerset

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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