Registered charity · Upminster
The British Music Society
- 4 trustees
- Income £12k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Wendy Faye HiscocksTrustee · since 2012
- IAN MaxwellTrustee · since 2021
- John Stanley GibbonsTrustee · since 2011
- Stephen Charles TrowellTrustee · since 1994
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 3 other charities:
- Alwyn Carwithen Trust · 1 shared trustee
- The William Alwyn Foundation · 1 shared trustee
- The British Music Society Charitable Trust · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.britishmusicsociety.com (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1995
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£12k£18k
- 2023£11k£13k
- 2022£786£81
Earlier years
- 2021£12k£11k
- 2020£13k£12k
Charitable objects
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BRITISH MUSIC WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PROMOTION OF THE MUSIC OF BRITISH COMPOSERS, ALIVE OR DEAD PAST 1850, WHO DO NOT HAVE SOCIETIES DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF THEIR MUSIC.
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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.
4 trustees on the board
- Dr Wendy Faye Hiscocks since 2012
- IAN Maxwell since 2021
- John Stanley Gibbons since 2011
- Stephen Charles Trowell since 1994
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Wendy Faye Hiscocks since 2012
- John Stanley Gibbons since 2011
- Stephen Charles Trowell since 1994
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- IAN Maxwell since 2021
- Stephen Charles Trowell since 1994
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Wendy Faye Hiscocks since 2012
- John Stanley Gibbons since 2011
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
- 1043838
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 22 OCTOBER 1994 AS AMENDED 24 FEBRUARY 2007 AND ORDER DATED 14 APRIL 2005
- Contact on the register
- 01708224795 · britishmusicsociety@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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