Registered charity · Faringdon
The Samuel Pepys Award Trust
- 4 trustees
- Income £906 (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Paul Leighton GrayChair · since 2001
- Jonathan David LoakeTrustee · since 2026
- Robert James O'Neill CMGTrustee · since 2008
- The RT HON SIR David LathamTrustee · since 2008
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 3 other charities:
- The Garrison Church Plate Fund · 1 shared trustee
- The Friends of the Saffron Walden Parish Church · 1 shared trustee
- The Friends of Bridge END Gardens · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.pepys-club.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2001
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£906£4k
- 2024£454£0
- 2023£872£5k
Earlier years
- 2022£28k£436
- 2021£6k£14k
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE WORKS OF SAMUEL PEPYS AND TO MARK THE TERCENTENARY OF HIS DEATH IN 1703 AND TO COMMEMORATE HIS LIFE BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BIENNIAL AWARD (OR MORE OR LESS FREQUENTLY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE) OF A MEDAL AND A SUM OF MONEY FOR A PUBLISHED WORK IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, MAKING THE GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF SAMUEL PEPYS, HIS TIMES , OR HIS CONTEMPORARIES, IN THE INTEREST OF ENCOURAGING SCHOLARSHIP IN THIS AREA.
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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.
4 trustees on the board
- Paul Leighton Gray Chair since 2001
- Jonathan David Loake since 2026
- Robert James O'Neill CMG since 2008
- The RT HON SIR David Latham since 2008
Trustees past 6 years
- Paul Leighton Gray Chair since 2001
- Robert James O'Neill CMG since 2008
- The RT HON SIR David Latham since 2008
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Paul Leighton Gray Chair since 2001
- Jonathan David Loake since 2026
Portfolio (2)
- Robert James O'Neill CMG since 2008
- The RT HON SIR David Latham since 2008
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
- 1089570
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 31 MAY 2001 AS AMENDED BY DEEDS OF AMENDMENT DATED 14 NOVEMBER 2001 AND 2 JULY 2008
- Contact on the register
- 07802301297 · plgray@btinternet.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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