Seafarers Hospital Society

Analysis

Seafarers Hospital Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Fitzrovia. It was registered in December 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Seafarers Hospital Society reported income of £544k and spending of £944k, spending 173% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £154k to £544k (+252%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 158%. Over the whole period it spent 212% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Seafarers Hospital Society sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Challenge Ministries UK (£544k), Growing Hope (£544k) and Sight Cymru (£543k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 94% and donations and legacies 2.2%. Charitable activities took 93% of spending and raising funds 4.3%. Grants to other organisations totalled £357k. Reserves of £6.3m would cover about 78 months of spending at that rate. It employed 5 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.