Menai Straits Heritage Sailing

Formed in 2021, Menai Straits Heritage Sailing (MSHS) is a not-for-profit heritage and community wellbeing initiative based in Beaumaris, Anglesey North Wales, serving Anglesey and Gwynedd. It aims to connect and engage a wide group of people in a unique local heritage project, with the overall aim of investing in and delivering social and cultural benefit along with improved individual wellbeing.

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

In Wales

• Gwynedd
• Isle of Anglesey

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 September 2025, it had income of £135,128 and spent £53,297.

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 64%, from £82,482 in the year to 30 September 2024 to £135,128 in the year to 30 September 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 39% of its income in the year to 30 September 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 2 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 30 September 2025: £31,170 from 2 grants. 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 4 grants to this charity since 2022, worth at least £31,500.

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.

• Henry John ChestertonChairAppointed 1 December 2023
• Helen Elizabeth Gavin-BrownAppointed 1 December 2023
• John BegleyAppointed 1 December 2023
• John Foulkes LloydAppointed 1 December 2023

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

Of the last 2 annual returns that were due, 2 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

1206008

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

1 December 2023

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 01 Dec 2023

Website

www.menaistraitsheritagesailing.comAs 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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• 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