Registered charity · London
DOC Society Charitable Trust
- 9 trustees
- Income £152k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Robert Dean Joseph BerkeleyChair · since 2021
- Dilhani Pranila WijeyesekeraTrustee · since 2020
- Fatima Ahmed Mohamed IbrahimTrustee · since 2020
- Kuntal BiswasTrustee · since 2024
- Matthew Adedayo Abimbola AjanakuTrustee · since 2020
- Peter NoorlanderTrustee · since 2020
- Sandra WhiphamTrustee · since 2020
- Shanida Annika ScotlandTrustee · since 2022
- Stephen Philip Dunbar JohnsonTrustee · since 2020
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, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Netherlands
- Linked company
- DOC Society Charitable Trust
- Registered
- 2013
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£152k£159k
- 2024£2k£9k
- 2023£332k£288k
Earlier years
- 2022£15k£597k
- 2021£888k£234k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF DOCUMENTARY FILM, IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF DOCUMENTARY FILM AND ITS CAPACITY TO RAISE AWARENESS OF SOCIAL, HISTORICAL AND OTHER ISSUES;2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING THE USE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM AS A LEARNING RESOURCE IN SCHOOLS AND FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS;3) TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND CULTURE BY PROMOTING HIGH STANDARDS OF CREATIVITY IN THE MAKING OF DOCUMENTARY FILM;4) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY IDENTIFYING, HARNESSING AND DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY CONFLICT OR OTHER SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
Grants received
4 grants · £249,985 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
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust · £199,985 (3 grants)
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch · £50,000
Most recent
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
- Robert Dean Joseph Berkeley Chair since 2021
- Dilhani Pranila Wijeyesekera since 2020
- Fatima Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim since 2020
- Kuntal Biswas since 2024
- Matthew Adedayo Abimbola Ajanaku since 2020
- Peter Noorlander since 2020
- Sandra Whipham since 2020
- Shanida Annika Scotland since 2022
- Stephen Philip Dunbar Johnson since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Dilhani Pranila Wijeyesekera since 2020
- Fatima Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim since 2020
- Kuntal Biswas since 2024
- Matthew Adedayo Abimbola Ajanaku since 2020
- Peter Noorlander since 2020
- Sandra Whipham since 2020
- Shanida Annika Scotland since 2022
- Stephen Philip Dunbar Johnson since 2020
Portfolio (1)
- Robert Dean Joseph Berkeley Chair since 2021
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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
- 1151870
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/03/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 12/08/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 08 AUG 2017
- Companies House
- Company number 08446956 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02075349626 · hello@docsociety.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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