Registered charity · Kent
Bearsted Choral Society
- 9 trustees
- Income £13k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Roger Stephen ByardChair · since 2012
- Ann Elizabeth HarrisonTrustee · since 2023
- Clare Cave Smith FCATrustee · since 2026
- Jennifer LovelockTrustee · since 2020
- Judith Anne UnderwoodTrustee · since 2023
- Margaret Ann KnottleyTrustee · since 2025
- Robert William PiggottTrustee · since 2014
- Rosemary Joy FergusonTrustee · since 2023
- Sarah Margaret WoodTrustee · since 2020
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Kent, Medway
- Website
- www.bearstedchoral.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2010
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£13k£11k
- 2024£12k£10k
- 2023£12k£10k
Earlier years
- 2022£10k£10k
- 2021£4k£4k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
I TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALSII TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Roger Stephen Byard Chair since 2012
- Ann Elizabeth Harrison since 2023
- Clare Cave Smith FCA since 2026
- Jennifer Lovelock since 2020
- Judith Anne Underwood since 2023
- Margaret Ann Knottley since 2025
- Robert William Piggott since 2014
- Rosemary Joy Ferguson since 2023
- Sarah Margaret Wood since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Roger Stephen Byard Chair since 2012
- Robert William Piggott since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Ann Elizabeth Harrison since 2023
- Jennifer Lovelock since 2020
- Margaret Ann Knottley since 2025
- Rosemary Joy Ferguson since 2023
Portfolio (5)
- Roger Stephen Byard Chair since 2012
- Clare Cave Smith FCA since 2026
- Judith Anne Underwood since 2023
- Robert William Piggott since 2014
- Sarah Margaret Wood since 2020
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
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
- 1135663
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 6 APRIL 2009
- Contact on the register
- 01622662436 · info@bearstedchoral.org.uk
- 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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