TALL SHIPS YOUTH TRUST

Registered charity 314229 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SAIL TRAINING ASSOCIATION

The Tall Ships Youth Trust is dedicated to the personal development of young people through the crewing of Tall Ships. Its principal activities are to provide opportunities for young people to go to sea on the Trust's ocean going sail training vessels and to promote sail training internationally.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 3.1.1 TO PROMOTE THE TRAINING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONALITIES, SOCIAL AND ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS THROUGH VOYAGES IN SAILING SHIPS AND OTHER MARINE CRAFT AND SHORE-BASED ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING APPROPRIATE ACCREDITATION AND QUALIFICATIONS; 3.1.2 TO PROMOTE AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE AN INTEREST IN TAKING UP MARITIME CAREERS (INCLUDING ROYAL NAVY AND MERCANTILE MARINE) AND CAREERS IN THE WIDER OCEAN ENVIRONMENT, OR IN ANY OTHER SECTOR USING THE SKILLS GAINED WHILST TAKING PART IN THE CHARITY’S VOYAGES OR OTHER MARITIME ACTIVITIES;3.1.3 TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC A KNOWLEDGE OF UP-TO-DATE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ELEMENTS OF VOYAGING AND SEAMANSHIP.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is limited to the Report of the Independent Auditor and does not contain financial statements, trustee reports, or narrative sections detailing the charity's financial position, reserves, or operational performance. Consequently, no facts regarding financial health can be extracted from this specific text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore (South) LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• 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
• 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.

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 29/02/2024 (received 10/01/2025, 12 days after the 29/12/2024 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 00567460
• Trading subsidiary: TALL SHIPS LIMITED Companies House 02844027

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tall Ships Youth Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PHILLIPS, Helen — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• RUSHDIE, Zafar — director, appointed 20/11/2024on trustee list
• LAYNG, Martin — director, appointed 08/12/2023on trustee list
• MARTYN, Andrew James — director, appointed 17/12/2021on trustee list
• BROWN, Julian James — director, appointed 17/12/2021on trustee list
• BRADSHAW, Emma Louise — director, appointed 18/12/2020on trustee list
• AISHER, David Owen — director, appointed 02/12/2019on trustee list
• D'ORNANO, Philippe — director, appointed 27/11/2018on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Nicholas James — director, appointed 27/11/2018on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Simon — director, appointed 27/11/2018on trustee list
• SADLER, Clare Marie — secretary, appointed 05/02/2026

Official officers record.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Owen Aisherchair
• Andrew James Martyn
• Emma Bradshaw
• Helen Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julian Brown
• Martin Layng
• Nicholas James Andrews
• Philippe dOrnano · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Edwards
• Zafar Rushdie

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NAUTICAL TRAINING CORPS.

• NAUTICAL TRAINING CORPS income £243k
• CHILDREN'S SAILING TRUST income £490k
• ROSELAND YOUTH SAILING TRUST income £68k
• SAILSHIP TRAINING AND LEARNING FOR LIFE income £343k
• OCEAN YOUTH TRUST SOUTH income £852k
• OCEAN YOUTH TRUST NORTH income £233k

Side by side with its peers

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