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Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

A Registered Charity based in England

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Description

Seafarers UK is a charity that helps people in the maritime community, by providing vital funding to support seafarers in need and their families and to those in education or training who are preparing to work or serve at Sea. We do this by giving money to organisations and projects that make a real difference to people's lives.

Also known as

  • A T Jeffress Fund
  • Admiral Lord Clarence Paget Fund
  • Admiral Sir William Tennant Fund
  • Aulay Watson Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Bankrupt Seafarers' Trust
  • Bowlands Fund
  • David Richards Trust
  • Endowed General Purposes Fund
  • The Gulf Trust (Seafarers)
  • H M S King Alfred Memorial Fund
  • ...and 38 other names
  • H M S Prince of Wales and H M S Repulse Memorial Fund
  • Henry Herbert Wills Fund
  • The Inglis Fund
  • James Henry Stephens Bequest
  • John Darrel Boyd Memorial Fund
  • John Edmund Mackenzie Fund
  • Julia Eliza Staunton-Massy
  • KGFS Falklands Fund
  • King George V Fund
  • King George's Fund for Sailors
  • Merchant Navy Fund, South Africa (Scholarship Fund)
  • Miss B Loane Bequest
  • Morley Fund
  • Naval Home Industry Fund
  • Norman Salvesen Bequest Fund
  • Province of Natal Gift Fund
  • R K a Druce Memorial Scholarship
  • Renny Fund
  • Richard Ward Fund
  • Royal Indian Navy Benevolent Fund
  • Royal Naval Officers' Fund
  • Royal Naval War Libraries Endowment Fund
  • Sarena Fund
  • Seafarers UK
  • Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)
  • The Seafarers' Charity
  • Sir Harry Twyford Memorial Trust
  • South African Women's Auxiliary Services Memorial Scholarship (1939/45)
  • Southampton Sailors' Home (King Georges' Fund) Charity
  • Stanley Groom Fund
  • Sundry Funds
  • Sydney Thomas Lethbridge Bequest
  • Seafarers UK
  • Seafarers UK (Maritime Charities Group subscriptions)
  • Seafarers UK (Maritime Charities Group)
  • W S Davidson Trust
  • Westminster Stores Scholarship
  • William Roger Vallance Memorial Fund

CCEW Charity number

226446

Registered

Postcode

SW1P 2QT

Website

theseafarerscharity.org

Domain

theseafarerscharity.org

Latest income

£2,293,000 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Locations

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Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.

Area of operation outside the UK

  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Anguilla
  • Australia
  • Barbados
  • Bangladesh
  • Bermuda
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bahamas
  • Botswana
  • Belize
  • Canada
  • Cameroon
  • Cyprus
  • Dominica
  • Fiji
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • Grenada
  • Guernsey
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Gambia
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Guyana
  • Isle of Man
  • India
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • Jersey
  • Jamaica
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Cayman Islands
  • Saint Lucia
  • Sri Lanka
  • Lesotho
  • Montserrat
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Maldives
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Nigeria
  • Nauru
  • New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Pakistan
  • Pitcairn
  • Rwanda
  • Solomon Islands
  • Seychelles
  • Singapore
  • Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  • Sierra Leone
  • Eswatini
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tuvalu
  • Tanzania, United Republic of
  • Uganda
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Vanuatu
  • Samoa
  • South Africa
  • Zambia

Registered Office in the UK

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Linked records

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This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 0 inactive records, from 2 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-226446 .
What is an organisation identifier?

An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.

Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.

Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.

Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.

GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 226446 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Grant-making foundations H10

UK Charity Activity Tags

These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.

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  • Beneficiary group BE » Families BE103
  • Education ED
  • Education ED » Training ED300

Theme (CCEW)

  • General Charitable Purposes 101
  • Education/training 102
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 103
  • Disability 104
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 105
  • Accommodation/housing 107
  • Amateur Sport 110
  • Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 114

Beneficiaries (CCEW)

  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies 205

Activities (CCEW)

  • Makes Grants To Organisations 302
  • Provides Other Finance 303
  • Provides Human Resources 304
  • Provides Services 306
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information 307
  • Sponsors Or Undertakes Research 308
  • Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body 309

Scale of operation

  • National and Overseas

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
1969-03-28 Registered as a charity
2004-12-31 2,992,793 3,168,150
2005-12-31 4,312,803 4,057,063
2006-12-31 3,639,723 4,175,224
2007-12-31 4,892,072 5,120,574
2008-12-31 4,714,483 4,128,028
2009-12-31 3,358,453 4,125,425
2010-12-31 3,025,765 4,126,452
2011-12-31 3,074,221 4,437,868
2012-12-31 3,360,286 4,424,379
2013-12-31 2,862,000 4,541,000
2014-12-31 2,719,000 4,525,000
2015-12-31 2,735,000 5,605,000
2016-12-31 2,833,000 4,576,000
2017-12-31 4,139,000 5,639,000
2018-12-31 3,166,000 4,675,000
2019-12-31 2,362,000 4,242,000
2020-12-31 1,554,000 5,513,000
2021-12-31 2,939,000 5,388,000
2022-12-31 2,293,000 5,070,000
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Charity people

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2022
£
2021
£
Employees 23 23
Employees paid more than £60,000 3 3
Volunteers 1 1
Trustees 14
Employees
Volunteers

Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Statement of Financial Activities

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Statement of financial activities for year ended .

Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.

2022
£m
2021
£m
Incoming resources
Donations and other voluntary income 1.0 1.3
Legacies 0.8 1.1
Endowments - -
Donations and legacies 1.8 2.4
Income from charitable activities - -
Income from other trading activities 0.1 0.1
Income from investments 0.4 0.5
Other income 0.0 -
Total 2.3 2.9
Expenditure
Investment management 0.4 0.4
Other spending on raising funds 1.1 0.9
Spending on raising funds 1.5 1.3
Grants to institutions 2.9 3.6
Other charitable activities 0.7 0.5
Charitable activities 3.6 4.1
Other spending - -
Total 5.1 5.4
Net income / (expenditure) (2.8) (2.4)

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Balance sheet

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Balance sheet at .

Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.

2022
£m
2021
£m
Fixed assets
Tangible and intangible assets 4.0 4.9
Investment assets 33.9 39.1
37.9 43.9
Current assets
Current investment assets - -
Cash 0.8 0.6
Other current assets 0.4 0.6
1.2 1.2
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year (0.7) (0.8)
Net current assets 0.5 0.4
Total assets less current liabilities 38.4 44.3
Creditors
Amounts falling due after one year - -
Net assets 38.4 44.3
Funds
Endowment funds 8.0 9.2
Restricted funds 0.7 0.7
Unrestricted funds 29.7 34.4
38.4 44.3

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Income from government

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2022
£
2021
£
Contracts with government
None recorded
Government grants
Income from government grants - 77,514
Government grants as % of total income - 2.6%
Number of government grants - 1

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Grants received

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Received 14 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
The Seafarers' Charity £2,600 Grant to Seafarers UK
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine and Fisheries
£9,700 Grant Contribution to Financial inclusion of fishermen research project
The Seafarers' Charity £10,000 Grant to Seafarers UK (Maritime Charities Group)
Garfield Weston Foundation
Environment
£15,000 Main Grants award
Ministry of Defence
Defence - Aged Veterans Fund FY18/19
£108,651 Supporting delivery of a public service
Ministry of Defence
Defence - Aged Veterans Fund FY18/19
£44,170 Supporting delivery of a public service
The Seafarers' Charity £10,000 Grant to Seafarers UK (Maritime Charities Group subscriptions)
Ministry of Defence
Defence - Aged Veterans Fund
£156,221 Supporting delivery of a public service
Ministry of Defence
Defence - Aged Veterans Fund
£163,492 Supporting delivery of a public service
Ministry of Defence
Defence - Aged Veterans Fund
£265,731 Supporting delivery of a public service

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

Grants made

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Published data showsthis funder made 465 grants between January 2017 and July 2023.

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2023 40 grants £1,655,846
2022 71 grants £3,075,976
2021 70 grants £3,748,775
2020 73 grants £3,115,839
2019 54 grants £2,090,833
2018 77 grants £3,169,551
2017 80 grants £3,735,175

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

Seafarers UK (King George's Fund for Sailors)

GB-CHC-226446

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