Registered charity · Holmfirth
The Halifax Orchestral Society
- 9 trustees
- Income £20k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Richard David FarrarChair · since 2013
- Barbara Mary SladeTrustee · since 2013
- Dr Heidi Ruth StevensTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Lesley-Anne PearsonTrustee · since 2022
- Harry Royston BiggsTrustee · since 2012
- Joanne Margaret LataTrustee · since 2024
- John Stanley MarshallTrustee · since 2021
- MRS Heather JefferiesTrustee
- Tina ThrippletonTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Calderdale
- Website
- www.halifaxorchestra.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£20k£16k
- 2024£19k£15k
- 2023£14k£13k
Earlier years
- 2022£12k£11k
- 2021£3k£2k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF MUSIC BY MEANS OF REHEARSALS, LECTURES, THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE SOCIETY THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.
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
- Richard David Farrar Chair since 2013
- Barbara Mary Slade since 2013
- Dr Heidi Ruth Stevens since 2022
- Dr Lesley-Anne Pearson since 2022
- Harry Royston Biggs since 2012
- Joanne Margaret Lata since 2024
- John Stanley Marshall since 2021
- MRS Heather Jefferies
- Tina Thrippleton since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Richard David Farrar Chair since 2013
- Barbara Mary Slade since 2013
- Harry Royston Biggs since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Richard David Farrar Chair since 2013
- Barbara Mary Slade since 2013
- Dr Heidi Ruth Stevens since 2022
- Dr Lesley-Anne Pearson since 2022
- Joanne Margaret Lata since 2024
- John Stanley Marshall since 2021
- MRS Heather Jefferies
- Tina Thrippleton since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Harry Royston Biggs since 2012
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
- 1069486
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 15 JUN 1987AS AMENDED ON 15 DEC 1997AS AMENDED ON 10 OCT 2016
- Contact on the register
- 01484683353 · contact@halifaxorchestra.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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