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The I T F Seafarers Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 7 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua and more
Website
www.seafarerstrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.5m£5.9m
  • 2023£1.9m£5.0m
  • 2022£1.5m£6.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.3m£5.6m
  • 2020£491k£9.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL STAND POSSESSED OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY AS AND WHEN THEY SHALL THINK FIT, THE SAME AND THE INCOME THEREOF;(A) IN RELIEVING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND DISABILITY AMONGST SEAFARERS;(B) IN PROMOTING THE SPIRITUAL AND MORAL WELFARE OF SEAFARERS;(C) IN PROVIDING, OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FACILITIES SERVING INTERNATIONAL PORTS FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS FOR SEAFARERS AND OTHER MARITIME WORKERS OF ALL NATIONS WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, DISABLEMENT OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OFSUCH SEAFARERS AND OTHER MARITIME WORKERS;(D) IN RELIEVING SEAFARERS' SPOUSES, CIVIL PARTNERS, CHILDREN) WIDOWS AND WIDOWERSAND OTHER DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS;(E) IN ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF SEAFARERS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;(F) IN ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OFTHE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ON THE SUBJECT OF SEAFARERS' RIGHTS AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL ASPECTS OF THAT SUBJECT AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS; AND(G) IN PROMOTING AND PRESERVING THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF SEAFARERS WITH THE AIM OF PRESERVING LIFE".

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.

7.5y median 7y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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

Education 2Finance 2Construction 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

13.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 40.5 in 2020

5 from 4 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
281936
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 15TH JANUARY 1981 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL DEED 4 JUNE 2010
Contact on the register
020 7403 2733 · info@seafarerstrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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