THE PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Registered charity 298328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC037603 (OSCR)

Fundraising for restoration. Publication of historical and technical information. Public meetings on related matters. Collection of archives and artefacts displayed on the Internet and available for research.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ACQUIRE PRESERVE AND EXHIBIT IN SAILING CONDITION OR OTHERWISE ONE OR MORE EXAMPLES OF PADDLE STEAMERS OR PADDLE PROPELLED VESSELS AND TO ACQUIRE PRESERVE AND EXHIBIT A COLLECTION OF MARINE EQUIPMENT AND OTHER APPURTENANCES AND MATERIAL ASSOCIATED WITH THEM WITH A VIEW TO EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PADDLE STEAMERS IN THE NATION'S MARITIME AND INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE.

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southend-on-Sea, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The group reported a net deficit of £9,909 for the year ended 31 October 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. The charity maintains a strong cash position with £3,797,882 in cash at bank and total net assets of £6,803,813. The trustees and auditors confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Henderson & Company. 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.

• 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
• 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

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Chair of Paddle Steamer Preservation Society to give talk at Island meeting countypress.co.uk · 30/03/2025

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Clifford Tresoldi Allenchair
• Angela Jane Johnson
• Ashley William Gill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Michael Larkin
• DAVID CHRISTOPHER GREEN
• Deryk John Docherty
• GORDON WILSON
• Iain Robertson
• JOHN HUGH MEGORAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Michael Adams
• MARTIN RICHARD LONGHURST
• NOEL KEMP
• Paul William Semple · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Thomas Morley · trustee of 2 other charities
• RICHARD WILLIAM CLAMMER · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PADDLE STEAMER KINGSWEAR CASTLE TRUST LIMITED.

• PADDLE STEAMER KINGSWEAR CASTLE TRUST LIMITED income £64k
• PAINTER STAINERS FINE ART TRUST FUND income £5k
• BRESSINGHAM STEAM PRESERVATION COMPANY LIMITED income £1.0m
• WHITTINGTON CASTLE PRESERVATION TRUST income £223k
• THE DOMINIC BARKER TRUST income £32k
• THE STANLEY MEWS COMMUNITY TRUST income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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