Registered charity · Bridgwater
Friends of Over Stowey Church
- 7 trustees
- Income £5k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- Religious Activities
- Where
- Somerset
- Registered
- 2000
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£5k£1k
- 2024£0£0
- 2023£40£5k
Earlier years
- 2022£40£0
- 2021£40£5k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, BEAUTIFICATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL OVER STOWEY ("THE CHURCH") IN THE DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS AND THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET AND OF THE MONUMENTS, FITTINGS, FIXTURES, STAINED GLASS, FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS AND CHATTELS IN THE CHURCH AND OF THE CHURCHYARD BELONGING TO THE CHURCH. ALSO FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SAID COUNTY OF SOMERSET AND THE SAID DIOCESE TO PRESERVE, REPAIR, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, BEAUTIFY AND RECONSTRUCT THE CHURCH AS A BUILDING OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OR ARCHITECTURAL VALUE IN THE EVENT OF THE CHURCH BEING DECLARED REDUNDANT BE A PASTORAL SCHEME MADE UNDER THE PASTORAL MEASURE 1983 (OR ANY STATUTORY MODIFICATION OR RE-ENACTMENT THEREOF) OR OTHERWISE CEASING TO BE USED REGULARLY FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP AND THE MONUMENTS, FIXTURES, STAINED-GLASS, FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS AND CHATTELS IN THE CHURCH AND THE CHURCHYARD BELONGING THERETO.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- DR Chistopher Michael Stone Mbbs Chair
- Andrew Mark Bates since 2023
- Jane Peaster
- KIT Christopher Nicholas Houghton since 2022
- Nicola Paulette Reid since 2023
- Peter Higginson since 2021
- Thomas Harry Searles Lindley since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- DR Chistopher Michael Stone Mbbs Chair
- Andrew Mark Bates since 2023
- Jane Peaster
- KIT Christopher Nicholas Houghton since 2022
- Nicola Paulette Reid since 2023
- Thomas Harry Searles Lindley since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Peter Higginson since 2021
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
- 1081011
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 11 APRIL 2000.
- Contact on the register
- 01278732102 · higginsonpeter@hotmail.com
- 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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