Registered charity · Reading
Berkshire Local History Association
- 9 trustees
- Income £1k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- David Edwin CliffeChair
- Agnes Joan DilsTrustee · since 2017
- Ann Stamford SmithTrustee · since 2017
- David John OsborneTrustee · since 2018
- Dr David LewisTrustee
- Dr Jonathan Howard BrownTrustee · since 2017
- Dr Margaret SimonsTrustee · since 2017
- Joanne Alexander-JonesTrustee · since 2021
- John Miles ChapmanTrustee · since 2017
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
- Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough and more
- Website
- www.blha.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2003
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1k£2k
- 2024£2k£2k
- 2023£2k£2k
Earlier years
- 2022£2k£2k
- 2021£2k£1k
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH THE STUDY OF LOCAL HISTORY WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA INCORPORATING THE ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE AS DEFINED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1972 TOGETHER WITH THOSE PLACES WITHIN THE ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE AS IT WAS CONSTITUTED BEFORE 1 APRIL 1974 BUT NOT SUBSEQUENTLY.
Board analysis for researchers
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
- David Edwin Cliffe Chair
- Agnes Joan Dils since 2017
- Ann Stamford Smith since 2017
- David John Osborne since 2018
- Dr David Lewis
- Dr Jonathan Howard Brown since 2017
- Dr Margaret Simons since 2017
- John Miles Chapman since 2017
- Joanne Alexander-Jones since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Agnes Joan Dils since 2017
- Ann Stamford Smith since 2017
- David John Osborne since 2018
- Dr Jonathan Howard Brown since 2017
- Dr Margaret Simons since 2017
- John Miles Chapman since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Agnes Joan Dils since 2017
- Ann Stamford Smith since 2017
- David John Osborne since 2018
- John Miles Chapman since 2017
- Joanne Alexander-Jones since 2021
Portfolio (4)
- David Edwin Cliffe Chair
- Dr David Lewis
- Dr Jonathan Howard Brown since 2017
- Dr Margaret Simons since 2017
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.
Gaps to watch
- 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
- 1097355
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 23 APRIL 2002
- Contact on the register
- 01189483354
- 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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