THE PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY — grant history

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Latest income

£5.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£304k

Accounts grants total

£304k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The pages do not describe a grant application process. Instead, they invite public support through donations, membership, and retail fundraising via easyfundraising.org.uk and Amazon Smile.

Summarised from www.paddlesteamers.org · paddlesteamers.org/about-psps/retail-fundraising/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Kent (2 grantees)
Medway (2 grantees)
Devon (1 grantee)
Swindon (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2023	FY2025
up	PADDLE STEAMER KINGSWEAR CASTLE TRUST LIMITED	£5k	£200k
down	Waverley Steam Navigation Co. Limited	£360k	£75k
not listed	Loch Lomond Steamship Company	£33k	—
not listed	THE NEW MEDWAY STEAM PACKET COMPANY LIMITED	£10k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Trust Limited	FY2025	£200k	Grant for Phase 2 of rebuild
Waverley Steam Navigation Co. Limited	FY2025	£75k	Grants for P.S. Waverley (including conversion of outstanding long-term loans)
Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Trust Limited	FY2025	£29k	Grants for P.S. Kingswear Castle
Waverley Steam Navigation Co. Limited	FY2023	£360k	Supporting Paddle Steamer Waverley
Loch Lomond Steamship Company	FY2023	£33k	Supporting Paddle Steamer Maid of the Loch
The New Medway Steam Packet Company Limited	FY2023	£10k	Supporting Paddle Steamer Medway Queen
Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Trust Limited	FY2023	£5k	Supporting Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle (Wessex and Dart branch grant)
Waverley Steam Navigation Co Limited	FY2022	£172k	Supporting Paddle Steamer Waverley
Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Trust Limited	FY2022	£26k	Supporting Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle (Branch donations and fundraising charter)
Loch Lomond Steamship Company	FY2022	£15k	Supporting Paddle Steamer Maid of the Loch

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 303993 vs reference 303993 (0.0% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.