Register of Charities - The Charity Commission THE ROYAL NAVAL MUSEUM PORTSMOUTH

Charity number: 266563
Removed charity

Activities - how the charity spends its money

To make accessible to all the story of the Royal Navy and its people from earliest times to the present by collecting, preserving and interpreting artefacts, photographs, documents, manuscripts and oral history testimony through permanent and temporary exhibitions in the Museum's galleries, through web resources, through lectures and learning activities and through an information service.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2009

Charitable expenditure

Charitable expenditure

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