Registered charity (CIO) · London
Friends of Wanstead Parklands
- 6 trustees
- Income £11k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest
- Website
- www.wansteadpark.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£11k£10k
- 2023£4k£2k
- 2022£4k£5k
Earlier years
- 2021£3k£958
- 2020£608£692
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:A) TO PROMOTE THE USE OF WANSTEAD PARK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF REDBRIDGE, NEWHAM AND WALTHAM FOREST, THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS AND THE WIDER PUBLIC AT LARGE; B) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES OR OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PRESERVATION, PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF WANSTEAD PARKLANDS;C) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF WANSTEAD PARKLANDS, ESPECIALLY ITS FEATURES OF HISTORIC, ARCHITECTURAL AND WILDLIFE INTEREST;D) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE CHARACTER, ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF WANSTEAD PARKLANDS.”
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Peter Brimson Chair since 2017
- Adrian Russell since 2021
- Gill James since 2017
- John Sharpe since 2017
- Lucy Dawes since 2024
- Simon Skelding since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Peter Brimson Chair since 2017
- Gill James since 2017
- John Sharpe since 2017
- Simon Skelding since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Peter Brimson Chair since 2017
- Adrian Russell since 2021
- Gill James since 2017
- John Sharpe since 2017
- Lucy Dawes since 2024
- Simon Skelding since 2017
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
- 1167459
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Association Registered 06 Jun 2016
- Contact on the register
- 07985134336 · info@wansteadpark.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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