Registered charity · Bishops Castle
Friends of Bishop's Castle Library
- 8 trustees
- Income £2k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Shropshire
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2k£2k
- 2024£1k£2k
- 2023£4k£2k
Earlier years
- 2022£2k£2k
- 2021£993£607
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BISHOP'S CASTLE LIBRARY THROUGH THE ACTIVITIES OF THE GROUP OF FRIENDS
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Alison Price Chair since 2014
- Alison Gouldstone since 2015
- Iris Briscoe since 2019
- Jane Morris
- Pat Morrison since 2015
- Rachel Katherine Hawes since 2021
- Sue Willmer since 2016
- Ruth Houghton since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Alison Price Chair since 2014
- Alison Gouldstone since 2015
- Iris Briscoe since 2019
- Pat Morrison since 2015
- Sue Willmer since 2016
- Ruth Houghton since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Alison Price Chair since 2014
- Alison Gouldstone since 2015
- Iris Briscoe since 2019
- Jane Morris
- Pat Morrison since 2015
- Rachel Katherine Hawes since 2021
- Sue Willmer since 2016
- Ruth Houghton since 2016
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
- 1068901
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 4 NOVEMBER 1997 AS AMENDED 19 FEBRUARY 1998
- Contact on the register
- 01588630375 · agouldstone@btinternet.com
- 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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