Registered charity · Basildon
Essex Field Club
- 13 trustees
- Income £169k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- William Harry George BA, MclipChair · since 2015
- Christopher Philip HarrisTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Peter Richard HarveyTrustee
- Fiona Mary Hutchings BScTrustee · since 2016
- James Alexander Clement SilverstoneTrustee · since 2023
- John Anthony JohnsonTrustee · since 2025
- John Howard Cooke BScTrustee · since 2014
- Martin John HeywoodTrustee
- Michael John Pannell LLBTrustee · since 2020
- Robert Charles Haig SmithTrustee · since 2022
- Simon David WoodTrustee · since 2024
- Simon TaylorTrustee · since 2012
- Yvonne Margaret Couch DrTrustee · since 2018
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Barking And Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and more
- Website
- www.essexfieldclub.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£169k£67k
- 2024£138k£69k
- 2023£128k£59k
Earlier years
- 2022£129k£66k
- 2021£85k£65k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(3.) THE OBJECTS OF THE CLUB SHALL BE: TO PROMOTE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF ESSEX (DEFINED HERE AS THE TOTAL OF THE TWO WATSONIAN VICE-COUNTIES OF NORTH ESSEX AND SOUTH ESSEX) AND TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ITS NATURAL HISTORY (DEFINED HERE AS INCLUDING ITS FAUNA, FLORA, GEOLOGY AND LITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY) BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE COUNCIL SEES FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:(3.1) STUDYING AND RECORDING NATURAL HISTORY; (3.2) ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING THE MAINTENANCE OF AN UP-TO-DATE RECORD OF ALL LOCAL SITES OF NATURAL HISTORY; AND (3.3) PUBLISHING AND MAKING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF RESEARCH, DATA AND OTHER HISTORICAL MATERIAL AVAILABLE, WHERE APPROPRIATE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN FURTHERING THE ABOVE PURPOSES.
Grants received
2 grants · £146,700 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £146,700 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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.
13 trustees on the board
- William Harry George BA, Mclip Chair since 2015
- Christopher Philip Harris since 2025
- Dr Peter Richard Harvey
- Fiona Mary Hutchings BSc since 2016
- James Alexander Clement Silverstone since 2023
- John Anthony Johnson since 2025
- John Howard Cooke BSc since 2014
- Martin John Heywood
- Michael John Pannell LLB since 2020
- Robert Charles Haig Smith since 2022
- Simon Taylor since 2012
- Simon David Wood since 2024
- Yvonne Margaret Couch Dr since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- William Harry George BA, Mclip Chair since 2015
- Fiona Mary Hutchings BSc since 2016
- John Howard Cooke BSc since 2014
- Michael John Pannell LLB since 2020
- Simon Taylor since 2012
- Yvonne Margaret Couch Dr since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- William Harry George BA, Mclip Chair since 2015
- Christopher Philip Harris since 2025
- Dr Peter Richard Harvey
- Fiona Mary Hutchings BSc since 2016
- James Alexander Clement Silverstone since 2023
- John Anthony Johnson since 2025
- John Howard Cooke BSc since 2014
- Martin John Heywood
- Michael John Pannell LLB since 2020
- Robert Charles Haig Smith since 2022
Portfolio (3)
- Simon Taylor since 2012
- Simon David Wood since 2024
- Yvonne Margaret Couch Dr since 2018
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
- 1113963
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 11 MARCH 2006. as amended on 25 Mar 2023
- Contact on the register
- 01708 524218 · j_couch@sky.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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