Registered charity · Eastleigh
The Royal Observer Corps Museum Trust
- 9 trustees
- Income £706 (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Alan Lawley MscTrustee · since 2024
- David Arnott MScTrustee · since 2021
- Edwina Jennifer Holden MBETrustee · since 2017
- IAN MccowanTrustee
- Jennifer Carolyn Morris LLBTrustee · since 2017
- John Woodrow Shere MA ,MraesTrustee · since 2020
- Martin Anthony Benson BEM,FrmetsTrustee · since 2022
- Neville Cullingford DMATrustee
- Philip Sydney PercivalTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.therocmuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1992
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£706£813
- 2024£1k£2k
- 2023£640£1k
Earlier years
- 2022£1k£1k
- 2021£1k£2k
Charitable objects
TO PROVIDE, MAINTAIN AND PROMOTE A PUBLIC MUSEUM CONTAINING A COLLECTION OF ARTEFACTS, A LIBRARY OF BOOKS, VIDEOS AND AUDIO TAPES WHICH ILLUSTRATE THE WORK OF THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS AND ASSOCIATED SUBJECTS SUCH AS AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION, THE ROYAL AIRFORCE, HOME AND CIVIL DEFENCE, AND MEMORABILIA ILLUSTRATING AND CELEBRATING THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS, ITS ACHIEVEMENTS, EQUIPMENT AND PERSONNEL SINCE 1925, AND IN SO DOING TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN ITS HISTORY, DUTIES AND ESPRIT DE CORPS. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS BY THE USE OF THE COLLECTIONS OF THE TRUST FOR THE PURPOSES OF RESEARCH AND LOCAL HISTORY.
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Alan Lawley Msc since 2024
- David Arnott MSc since 2021
- Edwina Jennifer Holden MBE since 2017
- IAN Mccowan
- Jennifer Carolyn Morris LLB since 2017
- John Woodrow Shere MA ,Mraes since 2020
- Martin Anthony Benson BEM,Frmets since 2022
- Neville Cullingford DMA
- Philip Sydney Percival
Trustees past 6 years
- Edwina Jennifer Holden MBE since 2017
- Jennifer Carolyn Morris LLB since 2017
- John Woodrow Shere MA ,Mraes since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Alan Lawley Msc since 2024
- David Arnott MSc since 2021
- Edwina Jennifer Holden MBE since 2017
- IAN Mccowan
- Jennifer Carolyn Morris LLB since 2017
- John Woodrow Shere MA ,Mraes since 2020
- Martin Anthony Benson BEM,Frmets since 2022
- Neville Cullingford DMA
- Philip Sydney Percival
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
- Narrow spread of causes across 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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1012451
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 5 JUNE 1992
- Contact on the register
- 02380693823 · xrocmunc@gmail.com
- 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.
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