Friends of H.M.S. Conway

Preservation and maintenance of memorabilia relating to HMS Conway. The Charity has a chapel and museum at Birkenhead Priory which houses many items of historical interest relating to the ship. Occasional services are held in the chapel during the year including an annual Remembrance service in November.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £8,499 and spent £13,075.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 83%, from £50,422 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £8,499 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 154% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2024: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Antony Charles DayAppointed 11 November 2023
• Derrick Ian Richard KempAppointed 2 February 2012
• Dr Nigel E KirkwoodAppointed 12 September 2013
• Geoffrey ToppAppointed 7 November 2015
• John Robert SouthwoodAppointed 11 November 2022
• Mary Compton-RickettAppointed 11 November 2023
• Michael Frederick ButterfieldAppointed 13 November 2021
• Paul Richard FrancisAppointed 13 November 2021
• Rev CHARLES SIMON PELLEW DOUGLAS LANEAppointed 26 June 2021
• Susan Jane LockwoodAppointed 9 January 2013

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1070944

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 August 1998

Governing document

DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 1 JULY 1998, UPDATED 4 MARCH 2005

Website

www.friendsofhmsconway.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Isle of Anglesey

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Isle of Anglesey Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Isle of Anglesey's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Bangor Conwy Môn