Registered charity · Essex
Brentwood Diocesean Cathedral and Choral Trust Fund
- 9 trustees
- Income £70k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Gerald Vincent Bodenham ThompsonTrustee
- Marianne O'SullivanTrustee
- MR Christopher Neil Hunter-GordonTrustee · since 2011
- Philip John TolhurstTrustee
- Philip TolhurstTrustee · since 1996
- Rev Alan Stephen Williams smTrustee · since 2014
- Rev Martin BolandTrustee · since 2017
- RT REV David Michael MansonTrustee
- Simon Andrew Dalton Hall MBE DLTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Essex
- Registered
- 1996
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£70k£30k
- 2024£52k£66k
- 2023£53k£91k
Earlier years
- 2022£53k£77k
- 2021£62k£63k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES FOR LAY CLERKS AND CHORISTERS AND ORGANISTS OF THE CHOIR OF BRENTWOOD CATHEDRAL IN THE MANNER SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE 6 IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE EXCELLENCE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN THE CATHEDRAL.(11) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION THROUGH THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE FABRIC OF THE BRENTWOOD CATHEDRAL BUILDING IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE 7
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.
9 trustees on the board
Trustees past 6 years
- MR Christopher Neil Hunter-Gordon since 2011
- Philip Tolhurst since 1996
- Rev Alan Stephen Williams sm since 2014
- Rev Martin Boland since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Gerald Vincent Bodenham Thompson
- MR Christopher Neil Hunter-Gordon since 2011
- Philip Tolhurst since 1996
- RT REV David Michael Manson
Portfolio (5)
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
- 1056374
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 31ST MAY 1996
- Contact on the register
- 02038138595
- 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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