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Registered charity (CIO) · Gosport

Royal Naval Sailing Association

The object of the CIO is to promote the military efficiency of His Majesty’s Armed Forces in such charitable ways as the trustees think fit with particular reference to: (a) increasing physical and mental fitness and wellbeing (b) fostering esprit...

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Canada, Australia
Website
www.rnsa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£1.0m
  • 2024£782k£764k
  • 2023£551k£487k
Earlier years
  • 2022£361k£390k
  • 2021£494k£342k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

The object of the CIO is to promote the military efficiency of His Majesty’s Armed Forces in such charitable ways as the trustees think fit with particular reference to: (a) increasing physical and mental fitness and wellbeing (b) fostering esprit de corps; (c) raising morale; and (d) encouraging seamanship, sea sense and sea safety awareness amongst members of the Naval Service, contributing towards the defence of the realm by members of the Naval Service; in particular, (but not by way of limitation), the trustees may further the object through encouraging and facilitating the participation in, and provision of or assisting in the provision of facilities for, water borne activities in the Naval Service.

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.

9 trustees on the board

4y median 5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 9Education/training 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 1Education 1Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£782k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

13.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 27.3 in 2020

6 from 3 in 2020
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
1183562
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 23 May 2019 as amended on 05 Apr 2023
Contact on the register
02392521100 · ceo@rnsa.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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