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Registered charity · North Yorkshire

Whitby Merchant Seamen's Hospital Houses

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £98k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Accommodation/housing
Where
North Yorkshire
Registered
1978

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£98k£44k
  • 2024£95k£62k
  • 2023£97k£262k
Earlier years
  • 2022£87k£112k
  • 2021£85k£63k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1)FOR THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS WHO ARE RETIRED SEAMEN OR THEIR WIDOWS OR DEPENDANTS BEING NOT LESS THAN 60 YEARS OF AGE, SUCH SEAMEN, WIDOWS OR DEPENDANTS BEING AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT RESIDENT IN THE TOWN OF WHITBY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF. (2)SUBJECT TO THE PAYMENTS AFORESAID THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE ALMSHOUSES OF THE CHARITY OR ANY OF THEM IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE SCHEME DATED 8 FEBRUARY 1994).

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.

8y median 7y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

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.

Accommodation/housing 5General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£95k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
508014
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 8 FEBRUARY 1994.
Contact on the register
01947893515 · mikeruss@hotmail.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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