Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

SS GREAT BRITAIN TRUST 

To preserve the ship, ss Great Britain, and her building dock for all time for the public benefit of all, and to place the same upon public display as a museum for the enhancement of the public understanding and appreciation of her social, commercial and technological context and significance.
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Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 53 years

www.ssgreatbritain.org

admin@ssgreatbritain.org

01179260680

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/01/23£3,707£4,714£-1,007£167£19,497£2,4996.477167
31/01/22£3,701£4,440£-740£164£20,717£2,6897.381208
31/01/21£3,310£4,111£-801£168£21,025£2,8088.286250
31/01/20£5,308£6,139£-831£84£22,055£3,088686250
31/01/19£6,397£5,951£446£2,157£22,404£3,3046.797245
31/01/18£8,552£5,502£3,051£92£22,218£3,2377.1940
31/01/17£6,106£5,132£974£1,851£18,758£3,4258870
31/01/16£5,257£5,186£71£2,041£16,812£3,8709850
31/01/15£4,922£4,763£159£1,834£17,066£3,9359.9670
31/01/14£4,178£4,573£-395£1,611£16,713£3,3238.7650
31/01/13*£3,833£4,172£-339£107£16,786£3,3529.6580
31/01/12*£3,837£4,102£-265£126£16,701£3,2219.4570
31/01/11£4,809£3,949£860£1,419£17,086£3,0569.3530
31/01/10£3,473£3,321£152£1,388£15,872£2,82310.2490
31/01/09£4,449£3,485£964£1,542£15,157£2,4388.4490
31/01/08£3,911£3,077£834£1,087£14,764£2,2658.8460
31/01/07£3,521£3,140£381£1,084£10,430£9513.6450
31/01/06£4,909£3,526£1,383£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/05*£5,292£4,503£789£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/04*£2,332£1,654£679£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 6.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 13%
Reserves/Spending: 6.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Who works here?
  • 77 employees
  • 167 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Bristol City, Somerset, South Gloucestershire,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£2,122,843
National Lottery Heritage Fund£349,600
Quartet Community Foundation£9,707
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to SS Great Britain Trust
£9,457 07/01/2022
As requested by the donor towards the costs of an event held at the SS Great Britain.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£429,705 27/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to SS Great Britain Trust
£250 02/07/2021
As requested by the donor towards preservation of the SS Great Britain.
DCMS - Museums and Schools
£50,544 23/03/2021
To increase the number of visits to museums and galleries by schools in locations classified as areas of high deprivation where engagement between schools and regional museums has been low. To ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to SS Great Britain Trust
£250,000 02/09/2020
COVID19: SS Great Britain Trust
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018-2022
£213,864 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund - SS Great Britain
£888,186 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund Round Two - SS Great Britain
£440,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Museums and Schools 2020/21
£50,544 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to ss Great Britain Trust
£99,600 05/02/2020
50 Years Back Home in Bristol
DCMS - SS Great Britain environmental monitoring improvements and Conservation in Action display
£50,000 01/04/2019
The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled ....more
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - Museums and Schools 18/20
£101,088 19/04/2018
23
Museums and Schools programme is aiming to provide high quality museum visits linked to the national curriculum.
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - NPO 2018-22: Band 1
£210,000 01/04/2018
11
National portfolio organisation- are leaders in their areas, with a collective responsibility to protect and develop our national arts and cultural ecology.
DCMS - DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund
£61,000 01/04/2017
The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to ss Great Britain Trust
£21,100 06/05/2015
Acquisition and interpretation of 'Jacques and the Stag', the centrepiece painting of Brunel's Shakespeare Room
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to ss Great Britain Trust
£4,957,100 25/03/2014
Being Brunel - the national Brunel project
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to ss Great Britain Trust
£500,000 21/05/2013
Brunel's ss Great Britain - Conservation, the Long View
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to SS Great Britain Trust
£86,586 03/12/2009
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary and training of a curator at the Brunel Institute.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 46-70
  • KERRY LOCK Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Accountant
  • MATTHEW JONES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Private Equity Advisor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/02/1971, number: 262158
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/01/1971, number: 01000878
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR13: 26 days late, AR12: 16 days late, AR05: 17 days late, AR04: 57 days late,
Main office

GREAT WESTERN DOCK
GAS FERRY ROAD
BRISTOL
BS1 6TY

Objectives

(1) TO CONSERVE AND PRESERVE THE SS GREAT BRITAIN IN THE GREAT WESTERN DOCKYARD FOR ALL TIME FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS A SHIP OF HISTORIC AND SCIENTIFIC INTEREST AND TO PLACE THE SAME UPON PUBLIC DISPLAY AS A MUSEUM ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL.(2) TO INCREASE THE SUM OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF MARITIME & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING & SCIENCE; MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY & SOCIAL HISTORY; THE LIFE AND WORKS OF I.K. BRUNEL AND HIS HISTORIC CONTEXT AND SIGNIFICANCE IN THE MODERN WORLD; AND TO COLLECT, CONSERVE, AND MAKE ACCESSIBLE AS A MUSEUM, ARTEFACTS AND SPECIMENS THAT DEMONSTRATE AND REFLECT A TANGIBLE LINK WITH THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THOSE SUBJECT AREAS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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