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Business Enterprise Heritage Trust
- 8 trustees
- Income £67k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Professor Mark Christopher CassonChair · since 2000
- Dr Andrew Christopher GodleyTrustee · since 2019
- Dr Janet Penelope CassonTrustee · since 2000
- Dr Lucy ann NewtonTrustee · since 2019
- Dr Simon Charles Townley BA, DphilTrustee
- Professor John CreedyTrustee · since 2001
- Professor Peter Jennings BuckleyTrustee · since 2000
- Ronald Brian TurnerTrustee · since 2000
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Oxfordshire
- Website
- www.businessheritage.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2001
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£67k£19k
- 2024£58k£19k
- 2023£55k£22k
Earlier years
- 2022£52k£19k
- 2021£58k£13k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF ECONOMICS , ECONOMIC HISTORY AND BUSINESS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND TO INCLUDE THE MAINTAINING OF A LIBRARY AND OTHER RESEARCH FACILITIES FOR THESE PURPOSES.
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
- Professor Mark Christopher Casson Chair since 2000
- Dr Janet Penelope Casson since 2000
- Dr Simon Charles Townley BA, Dphil
- Dr Andrew Christopher Godley since 2019
- Dr Lucy ann Newton since 2019
- Professor John Creedy since 2001
- Professor Peter Jennings Buckley since 2000
- Ronald Brian Turner since 2000
Trustees past 6 years
- Professor Mark Christopher Casson Chair since 2000
- Dr Janet Penelope Casson since 2000
- Dr Andrew Christopher Godley since 2019
- Dr Lucy ann Newton since 2019
- Professor John Creedy since 2001
- Professor Peter Jennings Buckley since 2000
- Ronald Brian Turner since 2000
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Professor Mark Christopher Casson Chair since 2000
- Dr Janet Penelope Casson since 2000
- Dr Andrew Christopher Godley since 2019
- Dr Lucy ann Newton since 2019
- Professor John Creedy since 2001
- Professor Peter Jennings Buckley since 2000
- Ronald Brian Turner since 2000
Portfolio (1)
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
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
- 1084610
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 15 NOVEMBER 2000 as amended on 09 Nov 2021
- Contact on the register
- 01491681483 · behtoffice@gmail.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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