Merchant Navy Association Fund Swansea

We have a monthly meeting with ex and current merchant navy members to promote friendship and discuss ways of raising funds to preserve the upkeep of our magnificent, monument and organise events regarding Merchant Navy seamen and mmembers of the fishing fleets who made the ultimate sacrifice.

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

In Wales

• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Swansea

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 28 April 2026, it had income of £11,669 and spent £13,009.

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 721%, from £1,422 in the year to 28 April 2022 to £11,669 in the year to 28 April 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 111% of its income in the year to 28 April 2026. 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 2004, worth at least £19,003.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Brian MorganAppointed 29 April 2014
• Dave HardingAppointed 29 April 2014
• Gilbert KentAppointed 29 April 2014
• Gordon CollinsAppointed 28 February 2014
• Peter BrittanAppointed 29 April 2014

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

1079806

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

10 March 2000

Governing document

DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 3 SEPTEMBER 1999 as amended on 11 Mar 2024

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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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