Registered charity (CIO) · Cheshire
Retrospect Opera
- 4 trustees
- Income £39k (2025)
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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.retrospectopera.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£39k£17k
- 2024£33k£37k
- 2023£36k£38k
Earlier years
- 2022£13k£21k
- 2021£12k£5k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE ART OF OPERA FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY RESEARCHING BRITISH OPERA OF THE 18TH, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES AND MAKING RECORDINGS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Dr Valerie Langfield MA PHD Chair since 2015
- Dr Benjamin Francis Hamilton PhD since 2020
- Joseph Charles Hearson since 2025
- Professor David Chandler Dphil since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Valerie Langfield MA PHD Chair since 2015
- Dr Benjamin Francis Hamilton PhD since 2020
- Professor David Chandler Dphil since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Dr Benjamin Francis Hamilton PhD since 2020
- Joseph Charles Hearson since 2025
- Professor David Chandler Dphil since 2015
Portfolio (1)
- Dr Valerie Langfield MA PHD Chair since 2015
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
- 1164150
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Foundation Registered 28 Oct 2015
- Contact on the register
- 0161 486 6605 · contact@retrospectopera.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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