Registered charity · Bromley
London Philharmonic Orchestra Benevolent Fund
- 4 trustees
- Income £50k (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
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Throughout England
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£50k£17k
- 2024£50k£20k
- 2023£39k£43k
Earlier years
- 2022£41k£74k
- 2021£34k£38k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO HOLD AND APPLY THE INCOME AND CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY IN MAKING AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES GRANTS TO OR FOR THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF SUCH OF THE BENEFICIARIES WHO SHALL AT ANY TIME BE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND IN NEED OF CHARITABLE RELIEF AND IN SUCH AMOUNTS AT SUCH TIMES ON SUCH CONDITIONS (IF ANY) AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT AND ANY SUCH GRANT MAY AT THE TRUSTEESÆ ABSOLUTE DISCRETION BE MADE BY PAYMENT OF SUCH BENEFICIARY AND IN THE LATTER CASE THE TRUSTEES SHALL BE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO SEE TO THE APPLICATION OF ANY MONEY SO PAID.'BENEFICIARIES' MEANS ANY PRESENT OR PAST MEMBERS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TOGETHER WITH ANY PERSONS LIVING IN A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THEIR SPOUSES, CIVIL PARTNERS, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, CHILDREN OR OTHER DEPENDENTS WHO ARE IN NEED OR DISTRESS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE AND ÆBENEFICARYÆ MEANS ANY INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THIS GROUP OF PERSON
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
- George Peniston Chair since 2018
- Joseph Joachim Maher since 2018
- Stewart Mcilwham since 2018
- Sue Bohling since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- George Peniston Chair since 2018
- Joseph Joachim Maher since 2018
- Stewart Mcilwham since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- George Peniston Chair since 2018
- Joseph Joachim Maher since 2018
- Stewart Mcilwham since 2018
- Sue Bohling since 2022
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
- 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
- 1179449
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 21 JUL 2018
- Contact on the register
- 07504657151 · gapeniston@gmail.com
- 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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