SEAFARERS HOSPITAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 231724 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7440710 · Wikipedia · also known as SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY

The Society assists seafarers and their dependants in need by making grants to qualifying individuals, as well as to selected organisations. Applications for individual assistance may be made at any time

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SEAMEN AND SEAWOMEN OF ALL NATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND THEIR IMMEDIATE DEPENDANTS (INCLUDING WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND CHILDREN OF DECEASED SEAFARERS) WHO THROUGH SICKNESS, MISFORTUNE OR AGE ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE AND PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH MEDICAL AND SURGICAL AID, LODGING, SUPPORT AND CLOTHING.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £57,661 for the year ended 31 December 2025, following investment gains of £342,171. Total funds carried forward were £6,287,741, with unrestricted reserves of £6,238,504. The trustees confirmed that the level of reserves provides a level of funds sufficient to meet current and anticipated expenditure over a prolonged period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £90,001 - £100,000 (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
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Seafarers Hospital Society (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~80.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (94% 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: 23.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Captain Kuba Szymanskichair
• Captain R Dunn
• Christopher Patrick Warton Nairne
• DR JOHN TIMOTHY CARTER MD PhD
• David Appleton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr CHARLOTTE MENDES DA COSTA MBBS MRCGP
• Mark Carden · trustee of 1 other charity
• OLUWOLE SAMUEL TUNDE · trustee of 1 other charity
• RUPERT CHICHESTER MA
• SURGEON COMMANDER FRANK LEONARD MB ChB RN

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• David Appleton — trustee here and at MERCHANT NAVY WELFARE BOARD

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 Seafarers' Christian Friend Society.

• Seafarers' Christian Friend Society income £334k
• SAILORS' SOCIETY income £1.5m
• ROYAL ALFRED SEAFARERS' SOCIETY income £5.3m
• THE I T F SEAFARERS TRUST income £852k
• LIVERPOOL SEAFARERS CENTRE income £518k
• SEAFRIENDS income £44k

Side by side with its peers

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