Royal Naval Association Newport (South Wales) Branch

The Royal Naval Assocation is a social organisation for veterans of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Women's Royal Naval Service. It also provides welfare support to members. The Newport Branch is part of Area 7 of the RNA whose HQ is in Portsmouth.

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

In Wales

• Newport City

Area of benefit in its governing document: Newport, South Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £969 and spent £1,186.

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

Up 99%, from £488 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £969 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 122% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2007, worth at least £7,105.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Ken LoweChairAppointed 2 April 2019
• Alan John Williams
• Andrew DaviesAppointed 1 September 2026
• Charles Francis Richard Walton

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, 5 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

1072800

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

7 December 1998

Governing document

SUPPLEMENTAL ROYAL CHARTER RULES AND BYE LAWS OF THE RNA (266982)

Website

www.newport-rna.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Blaenau Gwent

• 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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

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

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