The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Mersey Mission to Seafarers

Registered charity 220793 Registered since 1963

Operates: Manchester City, Liverpool City, Sefton, Wirral, Cheshire East, Cumbria, Lancashire, Shropshire, Blackburn With Darwen, Cheshire West & Chester, Isle Of Man

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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.

5 trustees on the board

6y median 7y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 5Religious Activities 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5

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

Other services 5Professional services 2Tech and media 1

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£53k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
157 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.merseymission.org
Emailjohn.wilson@liverpoolseafarerscentre.org
Phone03008008085
AddressLIVERPOOL SEAFARERS CENTRE, 20 CROSBY ROAD SOUTH, LIVERPOOL, L22 1RQ

Finances

£53,069 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£192,990£212,286
2022£72,325£126,878
2023£59,617£127,037
2024£88,489£128,242
2025£53,069£147,227

What it does

What

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesReligious ActivitiesAmateur Sport

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

TO PERMIT THE USE OF THE ASSOCIATIONS PREMISES AS PLACES OF RESORT FOR SEAFARERS WHETHER AS ROOMS FOR PURPOSES OF MEETING, ASSEMBLY, REFRESHMENT, READING, WRITING OR RECREATION AND OFFICES AND ACCOMMODATION IN CONNECTION THEREWITH FOR ANY KINDRED PURPOSES.TO PROMOTE AND MINISTER TO THE SPIRITUAL, MORAL AND TEMPORAL WELFARE OF SEAFARERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, BOTH ACTIVE AND RETIRED, WHO FREQUENT THE PORTS AND/OR DWELL IN THE DIOCESES OF LIVERPOOL AND SODOR AND MAN AND THE ARCHDEACONRY OF BIRKENHEAD IN THE DIOCESE OF CHESTER

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 18 DECEMBER 1922 AS INCORPORATED 23 APRIL 1923 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04 JUNE 2001, AND SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 14 MAY 2002, 17 SEPTEMBER 2002 AND 10 MAY 2005

Trustees (5)

5trustees
77median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Mersey Mission to Seafarers · 00189439 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 23/04/1923

2 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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