Registered charity (CIO) · Hastings
Hastings International Piano
- 8 trustees
- Income £256k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Sarah Helena KowitzChair · since 2020
- Alistair KeithTrustee · since 2022
- Diahann BrownTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Richard WrayTrustee · since 2020
- Jennifer Yeo MBETrustee · since 2022
- Jonathan MartenTrustee · since 2021
- Norman Charles StricklandTrustee · since 2023
- Terence Nicholas AdamsTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 4 other charities:
- Hastings Musical Festival Limited · 1 shared trustee
- Ashburnham English Song Awards · 1 shared trustee
- Instrumentalist of the World · 1 shared trustee
- Soundcastle LTD · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- East Sussex
- Website
- www.hastingsinternationalpiano.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2020
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£256k£277k
- 2024£638k£474k
- 2023£167k£163k
Earlier years
- 2022£386k£385k
- 2021£10£0
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS, IN PARTICULAR BY STAGING A BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL AND INTERNATIONAL PIANO CONCERTO COMPETITION IN HASTINGS, EAST SUSSEX PROVIDING PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS, TOGETHER WITH YEAR ROUND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER MUSICAL EVENTS DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE THE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC AMONG ALL AGE GROUPS.
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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
- Sarah Helena Kowitz Chair since 2020
- Alistair Keith since 2022
- Diahann Brown since 2023
- Dr Richard Wray since 2020
- Jennifer Yeo MBE since 2022
- Jonathan Marten since 2021
- Norman Charles Strickland since 2023
- Terence Nicholas Adams since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Sarah Helena Kowitz Chair since 2020
- Diahann Brown since 2023
- Jennifer Yeo MBE since 2022
- Jonathan Marten since 2021
- Norman Charles Strickland since 2023
Portfolio (3)
- Alistair Keith since 2022
- Dr Richard Wray since 2020
- Terence Nicholas Adams since 2025
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.
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
- 1192703
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 08 Dec 2020
- Contact on the register
- 01424 605245 · info@hastingsinternationalpiano.org
- 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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