Registered charity (CIO) · Birmingham
Meryc-England
- 9 trustees
- Income £2k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Dr Julia PartingtonChair · since 2022
- Barbara CavanaghTrustee · since 2019
- Carol Ann BowdenTrustee · since 2024
- Danielle Shyan Ballantine-DrakeTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Ryan David HumphreyTrustee · since 2024
- Margareta BurrellTrustee · since 2018
- Professor Christine Pascal OBETrustee · since 2016
- Stephen GrocottTrustee · since 2019
- Vanessa Frances Rose StansallTrustee · 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
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.meryc.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2k£4k
- 2024£1k£1k
- 2023£1k£771
Earlier years
- 2022£4k£2k
- 2021£412£786
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF MERYC ENGLAND ARE TO ADVANCE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AGED 0 TO 5 YEARS IN ENGLAND BY:I. PROMOTING THE INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH, THEORY AND PRACTICE BY ORGANISING AND FUNDING MEETINGS FOR THAT PURPOSE; II. SUPPORTING RESEARCH INITIATIVES THAT SERVE TO INCREASE THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSICAL EXPERIENCES;III. ENCOURAGING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE, CRITICAL REFLECTION AND THE ADOPTION OF PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE;IV. REVIEWING POLICES THAT AFFECT EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSICAL EXPERIENCES AND EDUCATION;V. PROMOTING EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC EDUCATION (ECME) IN NATIONAL, EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS;VI. CONNECTING WITH ORGANISATIONS AND SCHEMES WHOSE AIMS AND ACTIVITIES CONCORD WITH MERYC PRINCIPLES.
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Dr Julia Partington Chair since 2022
- Barbara Cavanagh since 2019
- Carol Ann Bowden since 2024
- Danielle Shyan Ballantine-Drake since 2024
- Dr Ryan David Humphrey since 2024
- Margareta Burrell since 2018
- Professor Christine Pascal OBE since 2016
- Stephen Grocott since 2019
- Vanessa Frances Rose Stansall since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Barbara Cavanagh since 2019
- Margareta Burrell since 2018
- Professor Christine Pascal OBE since 2016
- Stephen Grocott since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Dr Julia Partington Chair since 2022
- Barbara Cavanagh since 2019
- Carol Ann Bowden since 2024
- Danielle Shyan Ballantine-Drake since 2024
- Dr Ryan David Humphrey since 2024
- Margareta Burrell since 2018
- Stephen Grocott since 2019
- Vanessa Frances Rose Stansall since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Professor Christine Pascal OBE since 2016
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
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
- 1169504
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 06 OCT 2016AMENDED ON 20 SEP 2022
- Contact on the register
- 0121 4640020 · chair@meryc.co.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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