THE MARINE SOCIETY AND SEA CADETS

Registered charity 313013 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3521788 · Wikipedia · also known as THE MARINE SOCIETY · also registered in Scotland as SC037808 (OSCR)

Promoting Sea Cadet activity. Supporting the maritime industry. Franchisor and primary support for Sea Cadet units ? local groups constituted as separately registered charities.Supporting the maritime industry through the Marine Society, allowing seafarers access to lifelong learning opportunities, a ships? library service, and the provision of financial support for professional advancement.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL POTENTIAL AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES USING A NAUTICAL THEME; 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SEAFARERS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE COUNCIL SHALL DETERMINE; 3) THE ADVANCE OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MARITIME MATTERS; 4) THE PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC OR OTHER RESEARCH OF PARTICULAR BENEFIT TO SEAFARERS AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; 5) THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE OF SEAFARERS OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, BEING FACILITIES WHICH WILL IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND OF WHICH THEY HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; 6) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG SEAFARERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS.

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: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 25% to £23.562 million, driven largely by a £5.863 million receipt from the sale of the 202 Lambeth Road property. However, the charity reports negative net current assets of £1.076 million, which management attributes to a timing issue addressable by cash investments. Free unrestricted reserves stand at £727,000, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £2.4 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: MSSC (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 09476222 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £10k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~25.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (60% 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: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JEREMY JOHN HARLEY PENNchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andy Helliwell
• David Dingle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deana Rouse MBE
• Dr Kate Richardson OBE
• Gareth Hampton
• Honor Wilson-Fletcher MBE
• John Denholm
• Jonathan Robertshaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kirsten Hopkins
• Laurelle Brant
• Leonie Austin
• Michael Schofield
• Stephen Edward Peck
• Steve Smith OBE
• Stuart Edward Curl

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

Operates in: Bermuda · Guernsey · Jersey · Malta · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 MERCHANT NAVY ASSOCIATION.

• MERCHANT NAVY ASSOCIATION income £74k
• THE MERCHANT SEAMEN'S WAR MEMORIAL SOCIETY (INCORPORATED) income £1.4m
• PORTSMOUTH ROYAL MARITIME CLUB income £2.9m
• THE MARITIME EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £6.9m
• THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY income £1.6m
• SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH income £250k

Side by side with its peers

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