Registered charity · Bristol
The Handful
- 7 trustees
- Income £13k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
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
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Bath And North East Somerset
- Website
- thehandful.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£13k£11k
- 2024£15k£19k
- 2023£12k£10k
Earlier years
- 2022£10k£9k
- 2021£3k£3k
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Nicholas Charles Peter Glass Chair since 2024
- Alex Mears-Jennings since 2025
- Chris Simons since 2022
- Mark Suddaby since 2018
- Melanie Louise Nicole Reed since 2022
- Philippa Margaret Parfrey since 2019
- Sarah Ann Halls since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Mark Suddaby since 2018
- Philippa Margaret Parfrey since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Nicholas Charles Peter Glass Chair since 2024
- Alex Mears-Jennings since 2025
- Chris Simons since 2022
- Mark Suddaby since 2018
- Philippa Margaret Parfrey since 2019
- Sarah Ann Halls since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Melanie Louise Nicole Reed since 2022
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
- 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.
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
- 1181469
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 11 SEP 2018
- Contact on the register
- 07842614256 · thehandfulsecretary@gmail.com
- 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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