Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust

Registered charity 293188 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PORTSMOUTH HISTORIC QUARTER TRUST LIMITED, PORTSMOUTH NAVAL BASE PROPERTY TRUST

To preserve the Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth so that it may be enjoyed by the public for generations to come. To restore, maintain and find appropriate new uses for buildings of outstanding historic and architectural interest in the Dockyard.

Objects

1. THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES, VESSELS, DOCKS AND BERTHS OF NATIONAL INTEREST OR ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST OR HISTORICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH HER MAJESTY'S NAVAL BASE AT PORTSMOUTH AND THE PROTECTION AND AUGMENTATION OF THE AMENITIES OF SUCH BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES, VESSELS, DOCKS AND BERTHS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE 'NAVAL BASE BUILDINGS' FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURE:2. THE ACCESS TO AND ENJOYMENT OF THE NAVAL BASE BUILDINGS BY THE PUBLIC FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION IN NAVAL HISTORY AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE PORTSMOUTH, FAREHAM AND GOSPORT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £1,595,000 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by non-cash charges for depreciation, impairment, and a reduction in the value of investment properties. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted funds of £13,938,000 and the trustees confirm that sufficient levels of funds exist to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer 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.

• 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
• 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 31/03/2024 (received 14/07/2025, 164 days after the 31/01/2025 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 01959490
• Trading subsidiary: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL BASE PROPERTY COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 04207508
• Trading subsidiary: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL BASE PROPERTY COMPANY (QUEEN STREET) LIMITED Companies House 04969934
• Trading subsidiary: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL BASE PROPERTY (PRIDDY'S HARD) LIMITED Companies House 06964416 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Hannah Prowse — CEO (source)
• Rear Admiral Rex Cox — Deputy Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• PERRY, Denise — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• CROSER, William James — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• TRICE, Jonathan William Mercer — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• GOULDING, Mark John — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• MORRISON, Graham — director, appointed 01/11/2024on trustee list
• VERDON, Simon George — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• FRENCH, Benjamin Edward — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• GREEN, Helen Judith — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• TEBA, Tarek, Dr — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• COX, Rex John — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• GIBSON, Virginia Adair — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list
• PITT, Stephen Mark Christopher — director, appointed 01/09/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~35.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENJAMIN FRENCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cllr Stephen Mark Christopher Pitt · trustee of 2 other charities
• Cllr. Denise Perry
• Dr Tarek Teba
• Graham Morrison
• Helen Green
• Jonathan William Mercer Trice
• Mark John Goulding
• Professor Virginia Adair Gibson
• Rear Admiral Rex John Cox
• Simon Verdon
• William James Croser

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHATHAM HISTORIC DOCKYARD TRUST.

• THE CHATHAM HISTORIC DOCKYARD TRUST income £9.8m
• EXETER HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £131k
• GREAT YARMOUTH PRESERVATION TRUST income £486k
• SHEERNESS DOCKYARD PRESERVATION TRUST income £111k
• THE HACKNEY HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £197k
• TOTNES TRUST income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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