Registered charity · Bristol
Bristol Record Society
- 10 trustees
- Income £9k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Benjamin Pohl FrhistsocTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Charlotte Jane BerryTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Evan JonesTrustee
- Dr John George ReeksTrustee · since 2018
- Dr Kathleen Lillian Thompson FSA FrhissTrustee · since 2014
- Dr Richard George StoneTrustee · since 2014
- Professor Jonathan BarryTrustee
- Professor Peter Nigel MalpassTrustee · since 2016
- Professor Richard Aylmer Coates FSA SfheaTrustee · since 2018
- Professor Roger Leech FSA MifaTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Bristol City
- Website
- bristolrecordsociety.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1994
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£9k£4k
- 2024£4k£7k
- 2023£5k£4k
Earlier years
- 2022£4k£8k
- 2021£11k£1k
Charitable objects
(1) TO ENCOURAGE THE PRESERVATION AND THE STUDY OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL.(2) TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SUCH DOCUMENTS AND OTHER HISTORICAL AND ARCHIVE MATERIAL.
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Dr Benjamin Pohl Frhistsoc since 2021
- Dr Charlotte Jane Berry since 2025
- Dr Evan Jones
- Dr John George Reeks since 2018
- Dr Kathleen Lillian Thompson FSA Frhiss since 2014
- Dr Richard George Stone since 2014
- Professor Roger Leech FSA Mifa
- Professor Jonathan Barry
- Professor Peter Nigel Malpass since 2016
- Professor Richard Aylmer Coates FSA Sfhea since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr John George Reeks since 2018
- Dr Kathleen Lillian Thompson FSA Frhiss since 2014
- Dr Richard George Stone since 2014
- Professor Peter Nigel Malpass since 2016
- Professor Richard Aylmer Coates FSA Sfhea since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Dr Benjamin Pohl Frhistsoc since 2021
- Dr Charlotte Jane Berry since 2025
- Dr Evan Jones
- Dr John George Reeks since 2018
- Dr Kathleen Lillian Thompson FSA Frhiss since 2014
- Dr Richard George Stone since 2014
- Professor Roger Leech FSA Mifa
- Professor Jonathan Barry
- Professor Peter Nigel Malpass since 2016
- Professor Richard Aylmer Coates FSA Sfhea since 2018
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
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
- 1039843
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 23 APR 1992AS AMENDED ON 06 OCT 2016
- Contact on the register
- 0117 922 4224 · bristolrecordsociety@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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