SS GREAT BRITAIN TRUST

Registered charity 262158 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SS "GREAT BRITAIN" PROJECT LIMITED, SS GREAT BRITAIN PROJECT LIMITED

Latest income

£5.1m

Latest spending

£6.2m

Registered

1971

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Total income

£5.1m

Total spending

£6.2m

Cost of raising funds

£218k

Reserves (reported)

£28k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

Matthew Joneschair
Caroline-Jane Duckworth · trustee of 2 other charities
Edward John Rowberry
Emma Elizabeth Millington
Georgina Verity Power
Lady Sarah Porritt CBE
Lois Patricia Golding
Muir Macdonald
SAM MULLINS
Sean David Taggart

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/01/2025	£5.1m	£6.2m
31/01/2024	£5.5m	£6.4m
31/01/2023	£3.7m	£4.7m
31/01/2022	£3.7m	£4.4m
31/01/2021	£3.3m	£4.1m

Common questions

Who funds SS GREAT BRITAIN TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SS GREAT BRITAIN TRUST as a grant recipient include THE NISBET TRUST, LLOYD'S REGISTER FOUNDATION, EDITH MURPHY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE NISBET TRUST	FY2023	£11k
LLOYD'S REGISTER FOUNDATION	FY2024	£10k
EDITH MURPHY FOUNDATION	FY2024	£10k
THE NISBET TRUST	FY2022	£10k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	02/04/2025	£246k	"Global Voyages: Reimagining heritage with local communities"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	15/03/2022	£600k	"Albion Dockyard and Brunel Country"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	10/08/2020	£250k	"COVID19: SS Great Britain Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	05/02/2020	£100k	"50 Years Back Home in Bristol"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	06/05/2015	£21k	"Acquisition and interpretation of 'Jacques and the Stag', the centrepiece painting of Brunel's Shakespeare Room"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	25/03/2014	£5.0m	"Being Brunel - the national Brunel project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	21/05/2013	£500k	"Brunel's ss Great Britain - Conservation, the Long View"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/03/2013	£84k	"Go Aloft!"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/02/2009	£50k	"Salvage 2010"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/03/2008	£640k	"Brunel Institute Conservation and Learning Centre"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/09/2006	£3k	"An Activity Day Especially Designed To Involve Visually Impaired People Will Take Place In The Autumn On The Ss Great Britain Site. Art Work"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/07/2000	£9.2m	"ss Great Britain - Securing the Heritage Core"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	23/07/1996	£68k	"SS Great Britain Project"