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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £5,227,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily driven by a £4,750,000 impairment charge to fixed assets. Despite this accounting deficit, the trustees confirm that unrestricted funds are sufficient to cover at least six months of core costs, with a designated protected fund of £900,000, and the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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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Known funders

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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
• SS GREAT BRITAIN TRUST income £5.1m
• NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL TRUST income £2.4m
• THE NORWICH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST LIMITED income £321k
• LONDON HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST LTD income £116k
• GREAT YARMOUTH PRESERVATION TRUST income £486k

Side by side with its peers

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