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Registered charity · Southampton

Sailors' Society

Sailors' Society is a registered charity (number 237778) based in Southampton, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Dr Peter Michael Swift since 2012. Latest income £1.6m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as B I S S, British Sailors' Society, BSS (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2024)
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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, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Belgium, Brazil and more
Website
www.sailors-society.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Sailors' Society
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.6m£1.7m
  • 2023£2.3m£2.1m
  • 2022£1.4m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.9m£3.0m
  • 2020£2.4m£4.5m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO BENEFIT SEAFARERS, EX-SEAFARERS AND INTENDING SEAFARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS AND THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THOSE PEOPLE LIVE OR WORK BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AND THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE BY SUCH WAYS AND MEANS AS THE CHARITY SHALL THINK FIT AND FOR SUCH PURPOSES TO DO ALL SUCH LAWFUL THINGS AS ARE NECESSARY TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTS. .

Grants received

15 grants · £1,113,850 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.

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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.

3.5y median 1.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 10General Charitable Purposes 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9Religious Activities 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 9Professional services 4Other services 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.6m 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.

13.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.3 in 2020

18 from 127 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
237778
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEM AND ARTS OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 DECEMBER 1905 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 21 SEPTEMBER 1999, 6 DECEMBER 2007 AND 22 SEPTEMBER 2009. AS AMENDED BY CERTS OF INCORP ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22 OCTOBER 1925 AND 29 MARCH 1995.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 OCT 2017
Companies House
Company number 00086942 · Active
Contact on the register
023 8051 5950 · admin@sailors-society.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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