Registered charity · Saffron Walden
The Gibson Library Society
- 12 trustees
- Income £6k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Martyn John EverettChair
- Bruce Maurice Kingsey TiceTrustee
- Bruce MunroTrustee
- Charles Henry ReeseTrustee · since 2019
- Dr BEN CowellTrustee · since 2019
- Gillian Shirley WilliamsonTrustee · since 2015
- Howard Carl NewmanTrustee
- Ian WillardTrustee · since 2023
- Katherine Eleanor Corduff ColeTrustee · since 2014
- Ljiljana Ortolja-BairdTrustee · since 2021
- Patricia Anne GregoryTrustee · since 2021
- Peter Jeremy WalkerTrustee · since 2014
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, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- gibsonlibrary.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2000
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£6k£2k
- 2024£7k£6k
- 2023£6k£5k
Earlier years
- 2022£4k£3k
- 2021£4k£2k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC WITHIN SAFFRON WALDEN AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE TO THE SAFFRON WALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY (REGISTERED CHARITY NO. 310665) THROUGH ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE CHARITY THROUGH ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.
Grants received
1 grant · £139,039 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £139,039
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Martyn John Everett Chair
- Bruce Maurice Kingsey Tice
- Bruce Munro
- Charles Henry Reese since 2019
- Dr BEN Cowell since 2019
- Gillian Shirley Williamson since 2015
- Howard Carl Newman
- Ian Willard since 2023
- Katherine Eleanor Corduff Cole since 2014
- Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird since 2021
- Patricia Anne Gregory since 2021
- Peter Jeremy Walker since 2014
Trustees past 6 years
- Charles Henry Reese since 2019
- Dr BEN Cowell since 2019
- Gillian Shirley Williamson since 2015
- Katherine Eleanor Corduff Cole since 2014
- Peter Jeremy Walker since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Martyn John Everett Chair
- Bruce Maurice Kingsey Tice
- Charles Henry Reese since 2019
- Dr BEN Cowell since 2019
- Ian Willard since 2023
- Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird since 2021
- Patricia Anne Gregory since 2021
- Peter Jeremy Walker since 2014
Portfolio (4)
- Bruce Munro
- Gillian Shirley Williamson since 2015
- Howard Carl Newman
- Katherine Eleanor Corduff Cole since 2014
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
- 1084210
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 27TH JANUARY 1999 AS AMENDED 26TH JANUARY 2000 as amended on 09 May 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01799528199 · society@gibsonlibrary.org.uk
- 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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