The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Chatham Maritime Trust

Registered charity 1055710 Registered since 1996

Operates: Medway

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

14 trustees on the board

6.5y median 6y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Environment/conservation/heritage 14Other Charitable Purposes 14General Charitable Purposes 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Property 16Other services 5Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

12.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 18.3 in 2021

12 from 9 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.cmtrust.co.uk
Emailinfo@cmtrust.co.uk
Phone01634891888
AddressMaritime Wharf, St Mary's Island, Chatham, Kent, ME4 3ES

Finances

£2,080,405 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£2,458,334£1,520,569
2022£2,548,298£2,192,383
2023£2,285,068£1,786,201
2024£1,801,896£1,590,165
2025£2,080,405£1,814,324

What it does

What

Environment/conservation/heritageOther Charitable Purposes

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

1.1 To provide or to assist in the provision of amenities primarily for the benefit of citizens of the Medway Towns in the County of Kent and generally for the benefit of the public and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing to undertake management and maintenance responsibilities of the Chatham Maritime Estate (Development);1.2 To provide or to assist in providing facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in or in connection with the Development and its neighbourhood, such facilities being provided with the object of improving the conditions of life for the inhabitants of the local community1.3 To educate and assist young persons and other members of the community of the Medway Towns and its neighbourhood through their leisure time activities so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities and so that their conditions of life may be improved and in furtherance of that object to provide at the facilities to be provided by the Charity, lectures, classes and training facilities which will be made available to the public using such facilities.1.4 To undertake such other charitable purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales as the Trustees may from time to time determine.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 28TH MARCH 1994, AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED 2 JUNE 1994, 18 MARCH 1996, 28 NOVEMBER 2003 AND 3 DECEMBER 2004. as amended on 11 Mar 2022 as amended on 22 Jun 2022 as amended on 30 Jun 2022

Trustees (14)

14trustees
52median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Chatham Maritime Trust · 02913375 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 28/03/1994

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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