Registered charity · Cornwall
Bude Choral Society
- 8 trustees
- Income £16k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- David Charles PuddickChair · since 2012
- Eibhlis PatrickTrustee · since 2023
- Elizabeth Rosamond Grace HeavenTrustee · since 2025
- Fiona FieldTrustee · since 2017
- Jennie HillmanTrustee · since 2019
- Lindsey Twiston DaviesTrustee · since 2021
- Susan Felicity Anne KershawTrustee · since 2021
- Wendy Jane FrostTrustee · 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
- Where
- Cornwall
- Website
- www.budechoral.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2003
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£16k£18k
- 2024£13k£14k
- 2023£15k£15k
Earlier years
- 2022£13k£11k
- 2021£113£1k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(I) TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT OF, THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS, BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS;(II) TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHAL THINK FIT BUT IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE MAKING OF GRANTS AND DONATIONS.
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
- David Charles Puddick Chair since 2012
- Eibhlis Patrick since 2023
- Elizabeth Rosamond Grace Heaven since 2025
- Fiona Field since 2017
- Jennie Hillman since 2019
- Lindsey Twiston Davies since 2021
- Susan Felicity Anne Kershaw since 2021
- Wendy Jane Frost since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- David Charles Puddick Chair since 2012
- Fiona Field since 2017
- Jennie Hillman since 2019
- Wendy Jane Frost since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Eibhlis Patrick since 2023
- Elizabeth Rosamond Grace Heaven since 2025
- Fiona Field since 2017
- Jennie Hillman since 2019
- Lindsey Twiston Davies since 2021
- Wendy Jane Frost since 2017
Portfolio (2)
- David Charles Puddick Chair since 2012
- Susan Felicity Anne Kershaw since 2021
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1101044
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 29/02/2000AS AMENDED ON 29/09/2011 as amended on 03 Oct 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01566781845 · drpuddick@mac.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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