Common questions about The Mission to Seafarers's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Mission to Seafarers a good charity? +
The Mission to Seafarers scores 79 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 82% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The Mission to Seafarers a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Mission to Seafarers as a registered charity (charity number 1123613). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1123613&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The Mission to Seafarers's charity number? +
The Mission to Seafarers's charity number is 1123613. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The Mission to Seafarers's charity rating? +
The Mission to Seafarers scores 79 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The Mission to Seafarers have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Mission to Seafarers. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: very high reserves). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The Mission to Seafarers? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 82% of The Mission to Seafarers's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The Mission to Seafarers's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 18% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 19% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Mission to Seafarers. The Mission to Seafarers's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Mission to Seafarers receive? +
The Mission to Seafarers reported £5.8m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Mission to Seafarers's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-26). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Mission to Seafarers based? +
The Mission to Seafarers's register entry is at United Kingdom. It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, with a focus on human rights.
How much is The Mission to Seafarers's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Mission to Seafarers's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The Mission to Seafarers's money come from? +
The Mission to Seafarers reported £5.8m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £4.2m (74%), investments £1.1m (19%), charitable activities £223k (4%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.7m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Mission to Seafarers? +
The register records The Mission to Seafarers as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The Mission to Seafarers's trustees paid? +
The Mission to Seafarers's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Mission to Seafarers previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Mission to Seafarers: The Mission to Seafarers Limited.
When was The Mission to Seafarers registered as a charity? +
The Mission to Seafarers was entered on the register on 12 April 2008. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06220240).
How does CharityCompare score The Mission to Seafarers? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Mission to Seafarers's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Mission to Seafarers's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.