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Merchant Navy Welfare Board

Merchant Navy Welfare Board is a registered charity (number 212799) based in Southampton, governed by 16 trustees and chaired by Andrew Keith Cassels since 2012. Latest income £808k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £808k (2025)

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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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar
Website
www.mnwb.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Merchant Navy Welfare Board
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£808k£1.3m
  • 2024£4.0m£1.2m
  • 2023£531k£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.1m£3.6m
  • 2021£417k£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROVIDE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE SUPPORT, SERVICES AND GRANTS TO PERSONS, ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES OR OTHER BODIES WHOSE OBJECTS ARE, OR INCLUDE, THE PROVISION OF WELFARE TO SEAFARERS, OR THEIR SPOUSES OR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN NEED

Grants received

18 grants · £224,300 total

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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.

16 trustees on the board

4.1y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (6)

15
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 16Education/training 3The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 3Accommodation/housing 1Disability 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 17Education 7Business services 3

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£4.0m 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.

10.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2020

8 from 9 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
212799
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/04/1948AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/05/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/06/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/08/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 MAR 2023
Companies House
Company number 00453053 · Active
Contact on the register
02380337799 · enquiries@mnwb.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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