Registered charity · Hertford
The Spear Charitable Trust
- 2 trustees
- Income £55k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Nigel GoochTrustee
- Richard Michael HorwoodTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 6 other charities:
- The News of the World N A T S O P A Relief Fund · 1 shared trustee
- The Arthur Stevens Charitable Trust · 1 shared trustee
- The Margery Maplethorpe Trust · 1 shared trustee
- The Tappenden Charity · 1 shared trustee
- Hertfordshire Convalescent Trust · 1 shared trustee
- John Inns Charity · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Registered
- 1994
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£55k£165k
- 2024£91k£2.1m
- 2023£108k£163k
Earlier years
- 2022£105k£207k
- 2021£109k£100k
Charitable objects
TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES OR INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE OF EMPLOYEES AND FORMER EMPLOYEES OF JW SPEAR AND SONS PLC AND THE FAMILY AND DEPENDANTS OF SUCH EMPLOYEES AND FORMER EMPLOYEES.
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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.
2 trustees on the board
- Nigel Gooch
- Richard Michael Horwood since 2022
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.
Gaps to watch
- Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves
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
- 1041568
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SETTLEMENT DATED 24TH JANUARY 1962, SUPPLEMENTAL DEEDS DATED 8TH JULY 1994, AND 15TH SEPTEMBER 1994
- Contact on the register
- 01992300333
- 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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