Registered charity · Essex
The Copped Hall Trust
- 8 trustees
- Income £314k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- coppedhalltrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Copped Hall Trust
- Registered
- 1997
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£314k£462k
- 2023£424k£476k
- 2022£654k£366k
Earlier years
- 2021£609k£277k
- 2020£740k£192k
Charitable objects
1. THE CONSERVATION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT FOR T HE BENEFIT OF THE DISTRICT OF EPPING FOREST IN ESSEX AND OF THE NATION AT LARGE OF COPPED HALL, IN EPPING ESSEX AND ITS OUTBUILDINGS, GARDENS, GROUNDS AND ENVIRONS FOR THE TIME BEING (TOGETHER CALLED "COPPED HALL"); AND 2. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT PARTICULARLY (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY) IN THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURAL VALUE OF COPPED HALL AND THE HISTORY AND ECOLOGICAL VALUE OF EPPING FOREST AND ITS SUPPORT LANDS; AND 3. IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, TO PROVIDE, OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AT COPPED HALL FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE RECREATIONAL CHARITIES ACT 1958. ("SUPPORT LANDS") MEANS THOSE LANDS ADJACENT TO OR SURROUNDING EPPING FOREST WHICH PROVIDE ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION FOR THE FOREST.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Alan Michael COX Riba Chair
- Geoffrey Richard Speller since 2019
- Jane Taylor since 2024
- John Dawson since 2024
- Louise Robertson since 2020
- Michael Smith since 2023
- Nicholas Charles Munday since 2025
- Philip James Mckinder since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Geoffrey Richard Speller since 2019
- Philip James Mckinder since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Alan Michael COX Riba Chair
- Geoffrey Richard Speller since 2019
- Jane Taylor since 2024
- Louise Robertson since 2020
- Michael Smith since 2023
- Nicholas Charles Munday since 2025
- Philip James Mckinder since 2018
Portfolio (1)
- John Dawson since 2024
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
- 1065569
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1ST SEPTEMBER 1997
- Companies House
- Company number 03428819 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07785237880 · john.dawson@coppedhall.uk
- 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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