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Registered charity · Portsmouth

Royal Navy Museums

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £20m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
Where
Hampshire, Somerset, Hartlepool, Portsmouth City and more
Website
www.nmrn.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Navy Museums
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£20m£22m
  • 2024£19m£21m
  • 2023£30m£19m
Earlier years
  • 2022£27m£15m
  • 2021£17m£14m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR FURTHERING THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT:1. THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING OF NAVAL SERVICE AND AUXILIARIES PERSONNEL AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HISTORY, DEEDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE NAVAL SERVICE AND AUXILIARIES.2. THE PROMOTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF MILITARY EFFICIENCY BY ASSISTING RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION AND FOSTERING THE ESPRIT DE CORPS OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE SERVING IN THE NAVAL SERVICE OR AUXILIARIES; AND3. THE COMMEMORATION AND REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE NAVAL SERVICE AND AUXILIARIES WHO HAVE DIED WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE; AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF THE SACRIFICE MADE BY SUCH PERSONS.

Grants received

13 grants · £36,018,808 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £500,0002025-11-17
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £4,900,0002024-06-21
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,8932023-06-05
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £98,1702023-03-24
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £5,376,6002017-06-27
Board analysis

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.

13 trustees on the board

4.6y median 6y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (5)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 13Education/training 13Environment/conservation/heritage 12Other Charitable Purposes 1

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

Arts and leisure 21Other services 10Education 5

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£19.7m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.6 in 2021

3
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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1126283
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/09/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/10/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 OCT 2016 as amended on 12 Oct 2018 as amended on 12 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 06699696 · Active
Contact on the register
02392891370 · governance@nmrn.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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