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Registered charity · Bristol

SS Great Britain Trust

SS Great Britain Trust is a registered charity (number 262158) based in Bristol, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Matthew Jones since 2023. Latest income £5.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £5.1m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City
Website
www.bristoldockyards.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
SS Great Britain Trust
Registered
1971

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.1m£6.2m
  • 2024£5.5m£6.4m
  • 2023£3.7m£4.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.7m£4.4m
  • 2021£3.3m£4.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO CONSERVE AND PRESERVE THE SS GREAT BRITAIN IN THE GREAT WESTERN DOCKYARD FOR ALL TIME FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS A SHIP OF HISTORIC AND SCIENTIFIC INTEREST AND TO PLACE THE SAME UPON PUBLIC DISPLAY AS A MUSEUM ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL.(2) TO INCREASE THE SUM OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF MARITIME & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING & SCIENCE; MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY & SOCIAL HISTORY; THE LIFE AND WORKS OF I.K. BRUNEL AND HIS HISTORIC CONTEXT AND SIGNIFICANCE IN THE MODERN WORLD; AND TO COLLECT, CONSERVE, AND MAKE ACCESSIBLE AS A MUSEUM, ARTEFACTS AND SPECIMENS THAT DEMONSTRATE AND REFLECT A TANGIBLE LINK WITH THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THOSE SUBJECT AREAS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

35 grants · £19,801,434 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 Heritage Fund · £16,724,244 (13 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,737,506 (7 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £905,127 (4 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £150,000
  • The Linbury Trust · £143,000

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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.

9 trustees on the board

3.9y median 2y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

19.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8Other Charitable Purposes 1Religious 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.

Arts and leisure 14Business services 9Finance 7

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£5.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.5 in 2021

73 from 86 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
262158
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/01/1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/06/2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 29/06/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10/08/2012
Companies House
Company number 01000878 · Active
Contact on the register
01179260680 · hello@bristoldockyards.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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