NAUTICAL MUSEUMS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 284687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of the Trust is to advance the education of the public in maritime and coastal archaeology, history, geology and environment by the provision of a museum or museums as is considered necessary.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MARITIME AND COASTAL GEOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY THE PROVISION OF A MUSEUM OR MUSEUMS AS IS CONSIDERED NECESSARY.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hastings, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net operating surplus of £3,512 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £106,559 and total expenditure of £103,047. Unrestricted reserves stood at £93,404, significantly exceeding the designated fund target of £5,000 set aside for unforeseen reductions in income or increases in costs. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient reserves to continue as a going concern with no significant areas of uncertainty affecting asset carrying values.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 01629881

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.

• PINKERTON, John Paul — director, appointed 26/11/2025on trustee list
• BOORMAN, Kevin Lewis Lesley Arthur — director, appointed 20/06/2024on trustee list
• DODGE, Alan Michael French — director, appointed 03/07/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Michael French Dodge
• David Palmer
• John Pinkerton
• KEVIN BOORMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Dennis McDonald

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY TRUST.

• MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY TRUST income £541k
• THE MARINE TECHNOLOGY TRUST income £27k
• THE NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY income £166k
• HOLYHEAD MARITIME MUSEUM LTD income £89k
• NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL TRUST income £2.4m
• MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY SEA TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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