Registered charity (CIO) · Rossendale
Higher Mill Museum Trust
- 10 trustees
- Income £3k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Bernard RostronTrustee · since 2019
- Beryl Wendy RostronTrustee · since 2019
- Brian Walter EssexTrustee · since 2019
- Charlotte SteelsTrustee · since 2025
- Denis Keith WilsonTrustee · since 2019
- Ian Alston GibsonTrustee · since 2019
- Rachel Theresa WoodsTrustee · since 2025
- Ronald HowellTrustee · since 2019
- Stephen James ParrTrustee · since 2019
- Wojciech Peter JanczykTrustee · since 2019
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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
- Where
- Lancashire
- Website
- highermillmuseum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£3k£8k
- 2023£12k£3k
- 2022£285£383
Earlier years
- 2021£34£471
- 2020£78£2k
Charitable objects
1. THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF HIGHER MILL HELMSHORE AND THE ASSOCIATED LAND AS A SITE OF SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECT OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: I) THE USE OF HIGHER MILL AS A WORKING MUSEUM OF THE LANCASHIRE TEXTILE INDUSTRY TO PROMOTE TEXTILE HERITAGE, EDUCATION AND PUBLIC ACCESS. II) THE ACQUISITION, PRESERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF EARLY TEXTILE MACHINES AND RELEVANT COLLECTIONS FOR DISPLAY TO THE PUBLIC IN HIGHER MILL OR ANY OTHER MUSEUM.III) THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY OF, AND RESEARCH INTO, THE HISTORY OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Bernard Rostron since 2019
- Beryl Wendy Rostron since 2019
- Brian Walter Essex since 2019
- Charlotte Steels since 2025
- Denis Keith Wilson since 2019
- Ian Alston Gibson since 2019
- Ronald Howell since 2019
- Rachel Theresa Woods since 2025
- Stephen James Parr since 2019
- Wojciech Peter Janczyk since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Bernard Rostron since 2019
- Beryl Wendy Rostron since 2019
- Brian Walter Essex since 2019
- Denis Keith Wilson since 2019
- Ian Alston Gibson since 2019
- Ronald Howell since 2019
- Stephen James Parr since 2019
- Wojciech Peter Janczyk since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Bernard Rostron since 2019
- Beryl Wendy Rostron since 2019
- Brian Walter Essex since 2019
- Denis Keith Wilson since 2019
- Ian Alston Gibson since 2019
- Ronald Howell since 2019
- Rachel Theresa Woods since 2025
Portfolio (3)
- Charlotte Steels since 2025
- Stephen James Parr since 2019
- Wojciech Peter Janczyk since 2019
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.
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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
- 1179086
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 05 Jul 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01706632223
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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