PADDLE STEAMER KINGSWEAR CASTLE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 299931 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PADDLE STEAMER KINGSWEAR CASTLE

Preservation and restoration of the Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle to enable as wide a selection of the public as possible to gain experience of sailing in paddle steamers and exploring them, Maintenance of artefacts and documents relating to the Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle and other paddle steamers.

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 (HEREINAFTER CALLED "PADDLE STEAMERS") AND TO ACUIRE, 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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a surplus of £19,778 for the year, with total net assets increasing to £1,052,353. The charity holds unrestricted income funds of £205,586 and restricted funds of £415,045, while maintaining a revaluation reserve of £431,665. The trustees note the need to maintain sufficient reserves for unforeseen issues, particularly unplanned mechanical work, while focusing on completing a major refit.

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 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN HUGH MEGORANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ashley William Gill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Frank Dennis Snart
• Paul William Semple · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD WILLIAM CLAMMER · trustee of 1 other charity
• TIMOTHY WILLIAM CORTHORN

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

Operates in: Devon · Kent · Medway

Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Ashley William Gill — trustee here and at THE PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY
• JOHN HUGH MEGORAN — trustee here and at THE PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY
• Paul William Semple — trustee here and at THE PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY
• RICHARD WILLIAM CLAMMER — trustee here and at THE PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY.

• THE PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY income £5.7m
• ARUNDEL CASTLE TRUSTEES LIMITED income £5.9m
• PENGERSICK HISTORIC & EDUCATION TRUST income £108k
• THE STEAM TUG KERNE PRESERVATION SOCIETY LIMITED income £89k
• PAINTER STAINERS FINE ART TRUST FUND income £5k
• HERNE BAY PIER TRUST income £161k

Side by side with its peers

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