Registered charity · Essex
Meetings Industry Meeting Needs
- 14 trustees
- Income £133k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Bernice HeardTrustee · since 2025
- Brian KirschTrustee · since 2016
- Caroline WindsorTrustee · since 2022
- Christakis XenophontosTrustee · since 2024
- Daniel BardgettTrustee · since 2025
- David DodgeonTrustee · since 2017
- Katharine ConwayTrustee · since 2015
- Laura Barbara RosinskaTrustee · since 2026
- Lene CorganTrustee · since 2016
- Lisa Lernoux-DockTrustee · since 2018
- Louise Ann TawadrousTrustee · since 2022
- Margaret Rose ShawTrustee · since 2025
- Martin LewisTrustee
- Matthew Olaf CostinTrustee · since 2026
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.meetingneeds.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Meetings Industry Meeting Needs
- Registered
- 2005
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£133k£128k
- 2024£156k£126k
- 2023£120k£135k
Earlier years
- 2022£92k£95k
- 2021£64k£72k
Charitable objects
THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS BOTH WITHIN THE UK AND OVERSEAS, AMONG THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, BY SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.
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.
14 trustees on the board
- Bernice Heard since 2025
- Brian Kirsch since 2016
- Caroline Windsor since 2022
- Christakis Xenophontos since 2024
- Daniel Bardgett since 2025
- David Dodgeon since 2017
- Katharine Conway since 2015
- Laura Barbara Rosinska since 2026
- Lene Corgan since 2016
- Lisa Lernoux-Dock since 2018
- Louise Ann Tawadrous since 2022
- Martin Lewis
- Margaret Rose Shaw since 2025
- Matthew Olaf Costin since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Brian Kirsch since 2016
- David Dodgeon since 2017
- Katharine Conway since 2015
- Lene Corgan since 2016
- Lisa Lernoux-Dock since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (13)
- Bernice Heard since 2025
- Brian Kirsch since 2016
- Christakis Xenophontos since 2024
- Daniel Bardgett since 2025
- David Dodgeon since 2017
- Katharine Conway since 2015
- Laura Barbara Rosinska since 2026
- Lene Corgan since 2016
- Lisa Lernoux-Dock since 2018
- Louise Ann Tawadrous since 2022
- Martin Lewis
- Margaret Rose Shaw since 2025
- Matthew Olaf Costin since 2026
Portfolio (1)
- Caroline Windsor since 2022
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
- 1110830
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 20TH MAY 2004 AS AMENDED BY WRITTEN RESOLUTION DATED 2ND JUNE 2005. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 30TH JUNE 2005.
- Companies House
- Company number 05133540 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01371 875003 · mcostin@meetingneeds.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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