Registered charity (CIO) · Chigwell
The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers Charity
- 8 trustees
- Income £505k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Michael DaviesChair · since 2017
- Daniel Mark HeathTrustee · since 2022
- Mary Elizabeth WhitworthTrustee · since 2025
- Peter John Sverre Johansen MBETrustee · since 2020
- Phillip John Davis MBETrustee · since 2017
- Silverio Philip OliveiraTrustee · since 2022
- Steven Leslie WrightTrustee · since 2024
- Wendy SorrellTrustee · since 2017
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
- Where
- Throughout London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and more
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£505k£455k
- 2024£575k£447k
- 2023£433k£389k
Earlier years
- 2022£291k£332k
- 2021£44k£42k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (AS ARE CHARITABLE UNDER ENGLISH LAW) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:A) MAKING GRANTS, AWARDS AND DONATIONS TO ANY CHARITY INCLUDING: THE NOMINATED CHARITY OF THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON;B) SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE COMPANY'S AFFILIATED SCHOOL, ITS AFFILIATED MILITARY UNIT AND BY UNDERTAKING THE CHARITABLE MAGICAL TAXI TOUR; ANDC) RELIEVING THOSE LONDON LICENSED TAXI DRIVERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY MAKING GRANTS, AWARDS AND DONATIONS FOR THEIR BENEFIT.
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
- Michael Davies Chair since 2017
- Daniel Mark Heath since 2022
- Mary Elizabeth Whitworth since 2025
- Peter John Sverre Johansen MBE since 2020
- Phillip John Davis MBE since 2017
- Silverio Philip Oliveira since 2022
- Steven Leslie Wright since 2024
- Wendy Sorrell since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Michael Davies Chair since 2017
- Peter John Sverre Johansen MBE since 2020
- Phillip John Davis MBE since 2017
- Wendy Sorrell since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Michael Davies Chair since 2017
- Daniel Mark Heath since 2022
- Mary Elizabeth Whitworth since 2025
- Phillip John Davis MBE since 2017
- Silverio Philip Oliveira since 2022
- Wendy Sorrell since 2017
Portfolio (2)
- Peter John Sverre Johansen MBE since 2020
- Steven Leslie Wright since 2024
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
4.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1172474
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 Apr 2017 as amended on 28 Oct 2024
- Contact on the register
- 02082819320
- 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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