Registered charity · Nottinghamshire
The Museum of the Mercian Regiment (Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Collection)
- 12 trustees
- Income £61k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Lieutenant Colonel Retired Mark Andre HoldenChair
- Brigadier Edward Wilkinson CBE TD DLTrustee
- Brigadier Retd Peter Dennis CBETrustee
- Colonel Retired Michael PhillipsTrustee · since 2024
- Derek Anthony WilsonTrustee · since 2026
- Kelvin Donald WrightTrustee · since 2026
- Lieutenant Colonel DES FitzgeraldTrustee
- Lord Lieutenant Derbyshire Elizabeth Jane Fothergill CBETrustee · since 2020
Show all 12 trustees
- LT Colonel Keith Spiers OBETrustee · since 2014
- Mark John ShawTrustee · since 2021
- Mel SiddonsTrustee · since 2016
- Professor Lord Lt Veronica Pickering MBS HACTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
How it connects
Governance Register shows how people on this board have served on other boards.
Find yourself to see whether you're connected.
People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
- Memorial to the Officers and MEN of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) · 3 shared trustees
Shared trustees are formal board links, not proof the organisations work together.
About
- What it does
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire
- Website
- www.stand-firm-strike-hard.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1990
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£61k£78k
- 2024£103k£57k
- 2023£46k£37k
Earlier years
- 2022£36k£36k
- 2021£53k£43k
Charitable objects
TO HOLD TOGETHER THE TRADITIONS OF THE REGIMENT AND TO PERPETUATE ITS HISTORIC DEEDS AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO APPOINT TRUSTEES TO HOLD THE REGIMENTAL COLLECTION UPON TRUST.
Board analysis for researchers
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
12 trustees on the board
- Lieutenant Colonel Retired Mark Andre Holden Chair
- Brigadier Edward Wilkinson CBE TD DL
- Brigadier Retd Peter Dennis CBE
- Colonel Retired Michael Phillips since 2024
- Derek Anthony Wilson since 2026
- Kelvin Donald Wright since 2026
- Lieutenant Colonel DES Fitzgerald
- Lord Lieutenant Derbyshire Elizabeth Jane Fothergill CBE since 2020
- LT Colonel Keith Spiers OBE since 2014
- Mark John Shaw since 2021
- Mel Siddons since 2016
- Professor Lord Lt Veronica Pickering MBS HAC since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Lord Lieutenant Derbyshire Elizabeth Jane Fothergill CBE since 2020
- LT Colonel Keith Spiers OBE since 2014
- Mel Siddons since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Lieutenant Colonel Retired Mark Andre Holden Chair
- Colonel Retired Michael Phillips since 2024
- Derek Anthony Wilson since 2026
- Kelvin Donald Wright since 2026
- Lieutenant Colonel DES Fitzgerald
- Lord Lieutenant Derbyshire Elizabeth Jane Fothergill CBE since 2020
- LT Colonel Keith Spiers OBE since 2014
- Mark John Shaw since 2021
- Mel Siddons since 2016
Portfolio (3)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1001226
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 06/05/1990AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 09/11/2002AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 08/11/2003AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 17/11/2007AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 07/11/2012 as amended on 21 Apr 2019
- Contact on the register
- 01159724498 · enquiries@stand-firm-strike-hard.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data