Registered charity · London
The Military Wives Choirs Foundation
- 9 trustees
- Income £693k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Alexandra CoxTrustee · since 2022
- Alexandra Peace GadsbyTrustee · since 2024
- Caroline PaxtonTrustee · since 2022
- Elizabeth McwhirterTrustee · since 2024
- Guy Edwards OBETrustee · since 2024
- Juanita FoleyTrustee · since 2024
- Julia Fountain-BoothTrustee · since 2026
- Suzanne LordTrustee · since 2024
- The Rt Hon Anne-Marie TrevelyanTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, Cyprus, Germany and more
- Website
- www.militarywiveschoirs.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Military Wives Choirs Foundation
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£693k£621k
- 2024£723k£704k
- 2023£663k£601k
Earlier years
- 2022£695k£848k
- 2021£496k£478k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO RELIEVE THE NEED, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES, THEIR PARTNERS, SPOUSES AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS, PRINCIPALLY THROUGH THE FORMATION, SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHOIRS (PREDOMINANTLY MILITARY WIVES CHOIRS).
Grants received
9 grants · £308,050 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
- Ministry of Defence · £157,800 (5 grants)
- Veterans Foundation · £150,000 (3 grants)
- Masonic Charitable Foundation · £250
Most recent
- Ministry of Defence
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Alexandra Cox since 2022
- Alexandra Peace Gadsby since 2024
- Caroline Paxton since 2022
- Elizabeth Mcwhirter since 2024
- Guy Edwards OBE since 2024
- Juanita Foley since 2024
- Julia Fountain-Booth since 2026
- Suzanne Lord since 2024
- The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Alexandra Cox since 2022
- Alexandra Peace Gadsby since 2024
- Caroline Paxton since 2022
- Elizabeth Mcwhirter since 2024
- Juanita Foley since 2024
- Julia Fountain-Booth since 2026
- Suzanne Lord since 2024
Portfolio (2)
- Guy Edwards OBE since 2024
- The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan since 2025
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
1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.1 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1148302
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30 MAY 2012 as amended on 26 Jul 2023
- Companies House
- Company number 08089745 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02074639407 · info@militarywiveschoirs.org
- 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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