Registered charity · Reading
Berkshire Record Society
- 10 trustees
- Income £4k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Prof Ralph HoulbrookeChair
- Dr David LewisTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Elizabeth MatthewTrustee · since 2016
- Dr Jeremy BurchardtTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Margaret SimonsTrustee · since 2012
- Dr Peter Durrant MBETrustee
- Joan DilsTrustee
- Lisa SpurrierTrustee · since 2021
- Paul GardnerTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Anne CurryTrustee · since 2021
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough and more
- Website
- www.berkshirerecordsociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1993
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4k£3k
- 2024£5k£3k
- 2023£3k£7k
Earlier years
- 2022£4k£4k
- 2021£3k£2k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE, IN PARTICULAR BY CO-ORDINATING RESEARCH, TRANSCRIBING AND PUBLISHING DOCUMENTS BOTH PRE- AND POST-1974
Board analysis
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Prof Ralph Houlbrooke Chair
- Dr David Lewis since 2023
- Dr Elizabeth Matthew since 2016
- Dr Jeremy Burchardt since 2021
- Dr Margaret Simons since 2012
- Dr Peter Durrant MBE
- Joan Dils
- Lisa Spurrier since 2021
- Paul Gardner since 2024
- Professor Anne Curry since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Elizabeth Matthew since 2016
- Dr Margaret Simons since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Prof Ralph Houlbrooke Chair
- Dr Elizabeth Matthew since 2016
- Dr Jeremy Burchardt since 2021
- Joan Dils
- Lisa Spurrier since 2021
- Paul Gardner since 2024
- Professor Anne Curry since 2021
Portfolio (3)
- Dr David Lewis since 2023
- Dr Margaret Simons since 2012
- Dr Peter Durrant MBE
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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
- 1027976
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 24/06/1993AS AMENDED ON 28/04/2011 as amended on 24 Apr 2023
- Contact on the register
- 01189874096 · info@berkshirerecordsociety.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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