Registered charity · Rugeley
The SIR George Dyson Trust
- 6 trustees
- Income £6k (2026)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Paul SpicerChair · since 2016
- Dr Andrew Howard KingTrustee · since 2016
- James Keith EgglestonTrustee · since 2012
- Katy ThomsonTrustee · since 2022
- Lewis ForemanTrustee · since 2000
- Peter LinnittTrustee · since 2015
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:
- Gerald Finzi Trust · 1 shared trustee
- The ST Mary's Tyne Dock Schulze Organ Trust · 1 shared trustee
- NEW Surrey Performing Arts Library · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
- Website
- www.dysontrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2026£6k£13k
- 2025£7k£7k
- 2024£7k£4k
Earlier years
- 2023£989£8k
- 2022£5k£907
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF MUSIC BY THE PROMOTION, STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF THE MUSIC OF THE LATE SIR GEORGE DYSON AND BY MAKING AVAILABLE THE MANUSCRIPTS WRITINGS SCORES DRAFTS AND MEMORANDA OF THE LATE SIR GEORGE DYSON FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE STUDY OF HIS WORK.
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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.
6 trustees on the board
- Paul Spicer Chair since 2016
- Dr Andrew Howard King since 2016
- James Keith Eggleston since 2012
- Katy Thomson since 2022
- Lewis Foreman since 2000
- Peter Linnitt since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Paul Spicer Chair since 2016
- Dr Andrew Howard King since 2016
- James Keith Eggleston since 2012
- Lewis Foreman since 2000
- Peter Linnitt since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Dr Andrew Howard King since 2016
- James Keith Eggleston since 2012
- Katy Thomson since 2022
- Lewis Foreman since 2000
Portfolio (2)
- Paul Spicer Chair since 2016
- Peter Linnitt since 2015
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
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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
- 1068109
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 23 JANUARY 1998.
- Contact on the register
- 01202423429 · paul@paulspicer.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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