Registered charity · Aylesbury
The Bridgewater Sinfonia Trust
- 8 trustees
- Income £23k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Sidney Perera MA BAR FCAChair · since 2012
- Ben NoithipTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Paul St John-SmithTrustee · since 2022
- Francis David Oakley Beuttler HNCTrustee · since 2012
- Helen Margaret NichollsTrustee · since 2024
- Janet Margaret HartTrustee · since 2019
- Jonathan Mark LEETrustee · since 2013
- Norman NichollsTrustee · since 2024
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
- Hertfordshire
- Website
- WWW.BRIDGEWATER-SINFONIA.ORG.UK (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£23k£21k
- 2024£23k£18k
- 2023£16k£16k
Earlier years
- 2022£19k£15k
- 2021£1k£459
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1.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 RECITALS, PRINCIPALLY OF THE ORCHESTRA KNOWN AS THE BRIDGEWATER SINFONIA.2.TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT BUT IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE MAKING OF GRANTS AND DONATIONS.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Sidney Perera MA BAR FCA Chair since 2012
- Ben Noithip since 2025
- Dr Paul St John-Smith since 2022
- Francis David Oakley Beuttler HNC since 2012
- Helen Margaret Nicholls since 2024
- Jonathan Mark LEE since 2013
- Janet Margaret Hart since 2019
- Norman Nicholls since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Sidney Perera MA BAR FCA Chair since 2012
- Francis David Oakley Beuttler HNC since 2012
- Jonathan Mark LEE since 2013
- Janet Margaret Hart since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Sidney Perera MA BAR FCA Chair since 2012
- Ben Noithip since 2025
- Dr Paul St John-Smith since 2022
- Francis David Oakley Beuttler HNC since 2012
- Helen Margaret Nicholls since 2024
- Jonathan Mark LEE since 2013
- Janet Margaret Hart since 2019
- Norman Nicholls since 2024
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
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across 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.
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
- 1148375
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 30 JUN 2011AS AMENDED ON 11/06/2012
- Contact on the register
- 01296 708 698 · INFO@BRIDGEWATER-SINFONIA.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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