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Registered charity · Portsmouth

The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (Grand Fleet and Kindred Funds)

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Canada, Cyprus and more
Website
www.rnbt.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£12m
  • 2024£9.3m£11m
  • 2023£8.0m£9.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.3m£5.9m
  • 2021£5.7m£5.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROVIDE RELIEF IN CASES OF NECESSITY OR DISTRESS TO THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED OR ARE SERVING IN OUR NAVAL FORCES.2) TO MAKE PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR SUCH PERSONS FOR CIVIL LIFE AND ASSISTANCE IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY OBTAIN SUITABLE EMPLOYMENT ON LEAVING THE SERVICE.3) TO MAKE CONTRIBUTION TO THE CARE, TRAINING, MAINTENANCE AND WELFARE OF THE FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS IN CASES OF NECESSITY AND DISTRESS.

Grants received

1 grant · £1,500 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

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.

15 trustees on the board

4.1y median 2.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 15The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 15Disability 14General Charitable Purposes 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£12.5m latest income
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.

16.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.4 in 2021

191 from 119 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
206243
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 2ND MAY 1922, AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS DATED 13TH DECEMBER 1957, 29TH JANUARY 1959,13TH NOVEMBER 1973, 13 APRIL 1981, 8 JULY 2009 AND 13 DECEMBER 2017.
Contact on the register
02392690112 · rnbt@rnbt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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