Registered charity · Wadebridge
The Barnes Nichols Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £10k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Cornwall
- Registered
- 1993
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£10k£15k
- 2024£8k£6k
- 2023£9k£6k
Earlier years
- 2022£5k£5k
- 2021£6k£5k
Charitable objects
TO ASSIST IN THE SAVING OF LIVES AT SEA BY PROVIDING ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT AND OTHER CHARITABLE AIDS TO THE ENROLLED PERSONNEL OF THE PADSTOW LIFEBOAT STATION AND TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THE PRESENT CREW AND FORMER PERSONNEL OF THE PADSTOW LIFEBOAT AND OTHER ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT STATIONS AND OF THE INHABITANTS OF PADSTOW WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Robert John Norfolk Chair since 2016
- Edward Lanyon Hicks
- Keith Thomas Paddock FCA
- Richard Antony Pitman
- Richard Foster Merrick
- Ross George Mcburnie since 2021
- Rev Oliver Myles since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Robert John Norfolk Chair since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Robert John Norfolk Chair since 2016
- Edward Lanyon Hicks
- Keith Thomas Paddock FCA
- Richard Antony Pitman
- Richard Foster Merrick
- Ross George Mcburnie since 2021
- Rev Oliver Myles since 2025
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
- Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity
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
- 1026942
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 7 APRIL 1993 AS AMENDED ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1997 BY RESOLUTION PASSED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 74(2)(D)(I) OF THE CHARITIES ACT 1993, AND ON 22 NOVEMBER 2004 BY RESOLUTION PASSED UNDER PROVISIONS OF S.74(2)(C) OF CA 1993
- Contact on the register
- 01208816483
- 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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