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The Association of Wrens and Women of the Royal Naval Services

The Objects of the Charity are to promote the efficiency of women in the Royal Naval Services in the following ways:a) Celebrating past and current achievements, preserving the history and traditions, fostering esprit-de-corps and comradeship and...

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £92k (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
Where
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scotland
Website
www.wrens.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£92k£106k
  • 2024£124k£100k
  • 2023£104k£101k
Earlier years
  • 2022£210k£151k
  • 2021£77k£99k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

The Objects of the Charity are to promote the efficiency of women in the Royal Naval Services in the following ways:a) Celebrating past and current achievements, preserving the history and traditions, fostering esprit-de-corps and comradeship and encouraging personnel to benefit from the experience of former members of said Service and of their predecessors in the Women's Royal Naval Service ("WRNS"), in particular, but not exclusively, by maintaining contact and binding together in practical friendship with each other.b) Where necessary refer former serving members of the WRNS and serving and retired women of the Royal Naval Services and their dependants to the appropriate service charity or charities.

Grants received

14 grants · £30,738 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £30,738 (14 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,3362014-06-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £1,0002014-05-15
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,0302010-01-08
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £2,9752008-10-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,9502008-10-14
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.

11 trustees on the board

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

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.

Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 11General Charitable Purposes 11Disability 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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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£92k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
257040
Status
Registered
Governing document
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF WRENS REVISED 14 MARCH 1969, 26 OCTOBER 1975, 1991, 27 OCTOBER 2001 AND 22 OCTOBER 2011 AS AMENDED ON 24 SEP 2016 AS AMENDED ON 29 SEP 2018 AS AMENDED ON 29 SEP 2018 AS AMENDED ON 10 JAN 2019AS AMENDED ON 24 SEP 2016 as amended on 20 Feb 2023
Contact on the register
02392725141 · office@wrens.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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