Registered charity · Derbyshire
The Orwell Society
- 8 trustees
- Income £18k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.orwellsociety.com (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2014
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£18k£22k
- 2023£24k£41k
- 2022£21k£15k
Earlier years
- 2021£12k£13k
- 2020£9k£11k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE ORWELL.
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
- Bruce Robert Dear since 2025
- Christopher John Harrison since 2025
- Demsey Richard Slater since 2025
- Ian Edward Bloom since 2024
- LES Hurst since 2015
- Masha Karp since 2016
- Quentin Kopp since 2012
- Richard Horatio Blair since 2011
Trustees past 6 years
- LES Hurst since 2015
- Masha Karp since 2016
- Quentin Kopp since 2012
- Richard Horatio Blair since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Bruce Robert Dear since 2025
- Christopher John Harrison since 2025
- Demsey Richard Slater since 2025
- Ian Edward Bloom since 2024
- LES Hurst since 2015
- Masha Karp since 2016
- Quentin Kopp since 2012
- Richard Horatio Blair since 2011
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.
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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
- 1159072
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 18 OCT 2014 AS AMENDED ON 28 APR 2018AS AMENDED ON 17 APR 2021
- Contact on the register
- 00 · info@orwellsociety.com
- 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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