Registered charity · London
The Families in British India Society
- 11 trustees
- Income £34k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Beverly ANN HallamChair
- Alexandra ShermanTrustee · since 2011
- Elizabeth RiceTrustee · since 2015
- Geraldine Lorna CharlesTrustee
- John Derek NapperTrustee · since 2014
- John Hedley SuttonTrustee · since 2022
- Karen de BruyneTrustee · since 2025
- Michael TicknerTrustee · since 2022
- Stewart Christopher GreenTrustee · since 2022
- Tessa Charlotte Paulina SzczepanikTrustee · since 2025
- Valmay Stella YoungTrustee
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
- Throughout London, Australia, New Zealand
- Website
- www.fibis.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Families in British India Society
- Registered
- 2007
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£34k£46k
- 2024£32k£20k
- 2023£31k£12k
Earlier years
- 2022£37k£40k
- 2021£33k£24k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC STUDY OF FAMILY, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, GENEALOGY, AND RELATED SUBJECTS SUCH AS LOCAL HISTORY, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THOSE AREAS WHICH WERE ADMINISTERED OR OF INTEREST TO THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY, AND THOSE AREAS WHICH WERE ADMINISTERED OR OF INTEREST TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY THE AREAS SHALL INCLUDE PAKISTAN, BANGLADESH, BURMA, CEYLON/SRI LANKA, PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF AND ANY OTHER AREAS DEEMED RELEVANT BY THE TRUSTEES;2) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION, SECURITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OR ARCHIVAL MATERIAL.
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Beverly ANN Hallam Chair
- Alexandra Sherman since 2011
- Elizabeth Rice since 2015
- Geraldine Lorna Charles
- John Derek Napper since 2014
- John Hedley Sutton since 2022
- Karen de Bruyne since 2025
- Michael Tickner since 2022
- Stewart Christopher Green since 2022
- Tessa Charlotte Paulina Szczepanik since 2025
- Valmay Stella Young
Trustees past 6 years
- Alexandra Sherman since 2011
- Elizabeth Rice since 2015
- John Derek Napper since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Beverly ANN Hallam Chair
- Alexandra Sherman since 2011
- Elizabeth Rice since 2015
- Geraldine Lorna Charles
- John Derek Napper since 2014
- Karen de Bruyne since 2025
- Stewart Christopher Green since 2022
- Tessa Charlotte Paulina Szczepanik since 2025
- Valmay Stella Young
Portfolio (2)
- John Hedley Sutton since 2022
- Michael Tickner 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.
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
- 1118885
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20 DECEMBER 2006 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14 MARCH 2007.
- Companies House
- Company number 06034638 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02077311688 · chairman@fibis.org
- 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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