THE EXCELSIOR TRUST

Registered charity 285899 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Acquiring, maintaining and restoring the Lowestoft Smack "Excelsior" LT472 and providing facilities for young people to sail thereby maintaining their maritime heritage

Objects

(A) TO ACQUIRE, RESTORE, RE-RIG AND MAINTAIN THE LOWESTOFT SMACK "EXCELSIOR", (EX "SVINOR", EX "EXCELSIOR" LT 472) AND OTHER VESSELS USING AS FAR AS IS REASONABLY PRACTICAL, SIMILAR MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES TO THOSE USED IN ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION SO THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED AND OPENED TO INSPECTION BY THE PUBLIC AS PART OF BRITAIN'S MARITIME HERITAGE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS AND FULFIL THE OTHER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE TRUST. (B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR PEOPLE TO SAIL, AND WORK ABOARD HISTORIC VESSELS THEREBY KEEPING ALIVE MARITIME HERITAGE FOR ALL. (C) TO PROVIDE SAILING AND TRAINING FACILITIES TO SAIL AT SEA AS MEMBERS OF AN INTEGRATED TEAM ALONGSIDE EXPERIENCED AND ABLE-BODIED CREW, THEREBY INCULCATING A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY IN EACH AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM WHATEVER THEIR ABILITIES AND SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS.

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.

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Registered contact address: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure of £8,443 for the year, resulting in unrestricted net current liabilities exceeding current assets by £63,467. The trustees acknowledge the Trust is reliant on grant income and donations to survive, noting that without the 'overwhelming generosity of many charitable donors, the Trust could not survive.'

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

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• 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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2022 (received 05/10/2023, 5 days after the 30/09/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01670772

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.

• NUNN, Douglas Anthony — director, appointed 05/06/2025on trustee list
• FARROW, Joseph William — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
• SKEWS, Gerard Nicholas — director, appointed 31/10/2023not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Alice-Ann — director, appointed 15/04/2021on trustee list
• IRVING, John Derek Hunter — director, appointed 15/10/2020on trustee list
• EXECUTIVE ACCOUNTANCY & MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD — corporate secretary, appointed 23/06/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Douglas Nunn
• Gerald Skews
• JOHN CHRISTOPHER SPENCER WYLSON
• JOHN DEREK HUNTER IRVING
• Joseph Farrow
• Russell Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NORFOLK HERITAGE FLEET TRUST.

• THE NORFOLK HERITAGE FLEET TRUST income £479k
• THE LADYBIRD BOAT TRUST income £26k
• THE NORFOLK CHARITABLE TRUST income £80k
• OLD ETONIAN TRUST(THE) income £422k
• ROYAL SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB TRUST income £61k
• EAST ANGLIAN SAILING TRUST income £67k

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