Registered charity (CIO) · Nuneaton
Birmingham Astronomical Society
- 7 trustees
- Income £5k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
- Where
- Birmingham City, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Solihull
- Website
- www.birmingham-astronomy.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2020
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£5k£6k
- 2024£3k£2k
- 2023£4k£3k
Earlier years
- 2022£3k£2k
- 2021£2k£4k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ASTRONOMY AND RELATED SCIENCES, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY: ENCOURAGING PUBLIC INTEREST AND PARTICIPATION IN ASTRONOMY; PROVIDING EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES FOR THE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS; FURTHERING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PUBLIC IN ASTRONOMY THROUGH PUBLIC EVENTS, LECTURES AND THE CIRCULATION OF RESEARCH DATA.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- John Henry Young Chair since 2020
- Barrie Edward Paterson since 2020
- Benjamin James Stanley since 2020
- John Fredrick Downing since 2020
- Prof John Edward Tyrrell Penny since 2020
- Peter Thick since 2020
- Yvonne Diane Thick since 2021
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- John Henry Young Chair since 2020
- Barrie Edward Paterson since 2020
- Benjamin James Stanley since 2020
- John Fredrick Downing since 2020
- Prof John Edward Tyrrell Penny since 2020
- Peter Thick since 2020
- Yvonne Diane Thick since 2021
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
- 1192429
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 19 Nov 2020
- Contact on the register
- 01212044731 · secretary@birmingham-astronomy.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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