Registered charity · Newport
Friends of the Newport Ship
1. To promote and support the conservation of the Newport Medieval Ship together with all artefacts and, when fully conserved, their effective public display and, if practical, with other maritime relics from the Severn Estuary.2. To facilitate...
- 8 trustees
- Income £25k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Catherine Grace HumbyTrustee · since 2021
- David LeighTrustee · since 2019
- Dr James Gareth DaviesTrustee · since 2023
- Elaine Marilyn DaveyTrustee · since 2022
- Jeffrey GrosvenorTrustee · since 2021
- John Charles FerrisTrustee · since 2019
- LIZ GulliverTrustee · since 2018
- Rosalie Sian KingTrustee · since 2020
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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- Rotary Club of Newport Benevolent Fund · 1 shared trustee
- Newport Civic Society · 1 shared trustee
- Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Newport City
- Website
- www.newportship.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2004
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£25k£36k
- 2024£47k£46k
- 2023£19k£15k
Earlier years
- 2022£23k£20k
- 2021£13k£12k
Charitable objects
1. To promote and support the conservation of the Newport Medieval Ship together with all artefacts and, when fully conserved, their effective public display and, if practical, with other maritime relics from the Severn Estuary.2. To facilitate research into the Ship, the possible methods of display and conservation of the vessel and the dissemination of the results of this research to the wider world.3. To promote greater awareness of the Newport Medieval Ship and to foster understanding and appreciation of Newport's maritime heritage.
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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.
8 trustees on the board
- Catherine Grace Humby since 2021
- David Leigh since 2019
- Dr James Gareth Davies since 2023
- Elaine Marilyn Davey since 2022
- Jeffrey Grosvenor since 2021
- John Charles Ferris since 2019
- LIZ Gulliver since 2018
- Rosalie Sian King since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- David Leigh since 2019
- John Charles Ferris since 2019
- LIZ Gulliver since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Catherine Grace Humby since 2021
- Dr James Gareth Davies since 2023
- Jeffrey Grosvenor since 2021
- LIZ Gulliver since 2018
Portfolio (4)
- David Leigh since 2019
- Elaine Marilyn Davey since 2022
- John Charles Ferris since 2019
- Rosalie Sian King since 2020
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1105449
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 03/09/2003AS AMENDED ON 30/10/2010 as amended on 06 Dec 2021
- Contact on the register
- 01633376023 · secretary@newportship.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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