Berkshire Record Society

Registered charity 1027976 Registered since 1993

Operates: Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham, Oxfordshire

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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

6.3y median 5y

average tenure

14y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Dr Elizabeth Matthew since 2016
Dr Margaret Simons since 2012

8.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 2General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 2Other services 1

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£4k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Website	www.berkshirerecordsociety.org.uk
Email	info@berkshirerecordsociety.org.uk
Phone	01189874096
Address	BERKSHIRE RECORD OFFICE, 9 COLEY AVENUE, READING, RG1 6AF

Finances

£3,848 latest income

Year	Income	Spending
2021	£2,929	£2,457
2022	£4,110	£3,795
2023	£2,907	£6,570
2024	£5,312	£2,967
2025	£3,848	£3,101

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Sponsors Or Undertakes Research

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

Governing document: CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 24/06/1993AS AMENDED ON 28/04/2011 as amended on 24 Apr 2023

Trustees (10)

10trustees

88median age

1aged 70+

Connected charities (5)

Berkshire Local History Association 2 shared trustees
Sabina Sutherland Charitable Trust 1 shared trustee
Berkshire Historic Churches Trust 1 shared trustee
Victoria County History Trust 1 shared trustee
The Mills Archive Trust 1 shared trustee

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