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Registered charity (CIO) · Portsmouth

Naval Families Federation

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £680k (2026)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.nff.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£680k£687k
  • 2025£650k£618k
  • 2024£621k£575k
Earlier years
  • 2023£569k£549k
  • 2022£607k£581k

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2026: Government grants 85%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AND MILITARY EFFICIENCY, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY ASSISTING IN THE PREVENTION OF SERVING MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES (INCLUDING RESERVES), AND SERVING MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY, AND THEIR FAMILIES, BEING DISADVANTAGED THROUGH MILITARY SERVICE.2) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES FAMILIES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Grants received

3 grants · £131,559 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

  • Ministry of Defence · £121,559 (2 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £10,000

Most recent

  • Ministry of Defence £10,0002020-08-14
  • Department of Health and Social Care £10,0002020-08-13
  • Ministry of Defence £111,5592018-04-01
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.

5y median 6y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 6Economic/community Development/employment 6General Charitable Purposes 6

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 1Business services 1

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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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£650k 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.

6.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.1 in 2021

15 from 13 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1177107
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 12 Feb 2018
Contact on the register
02392654374 · contactus@nff.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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