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Registered charity · Hampshire

Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £4.6m (2026)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Rear Admiral Rex John Cox.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Hampshire, Portsmouth City
Website
portsmouthhq.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£4.6m£3.6m
  • 2025£4.3m£3.9m
  • 2024£3.9m£5.2m
Earlier years
  • 2023£3.9m£4.9m
  • 2022£3.9m£4.9m
Charitable objects

1. THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES, VESSELS, DOCKS AND BERTHS OF NATIONAL INTEREST OR ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST OR HISTORICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH HER MAJESTY'S NAVAL BASE AT PORTSMOUTH AND THE PROTECTION AND AUGMENTATION OF THE AMENITIES OF SUCH BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES, VESSELS, DOCKS AND BERTHS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE 'NAVAL BASE BUILDINGS' FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURE:2. THE ACCESS TO AND ENJOYMENT OF THE NAVAL BASE BUILDINGS BY THE PUBLIC FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION IN NAVAL HISTORY AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM.

Board analysis for researchers

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

2.6y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure
16.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Economic/community Development/employment 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11

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 14Property 9Education 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.3m 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.

33.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021

33 from 40 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
293188
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/09/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/09/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/07/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/01/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/01/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/08/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/07/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/2011 as amended on 02 Oct 2023 as amended on 28 Mar 2024 as amended on 28 Mar 2024
Companies House
Company number 01959490 · Active
Contact on the register
02392820921 · chiefexecpa@pnbpt.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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