Registered charity (CIO) · London
Vaughan Williams Foundation
- 11 trustees
- Income £771k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Sally Hilary GrovesChair · since 2021
- Andrew Hunter JohnstonTrustee · since 2021
- Bernard Anthony WatsonTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Raymond Yan Ho YiuTrustee · since 2025
- Harriet WyborTrustee · since 2025
- Helen FaulknerTrustee · since 2021
- John Temperley AxonTrustee · since 2021
- Nicolas John BellTrustee · since 2021
- Professor Nicola LefanuTrustee · since 2021
- Professor Richard CaustonTrustee · since 2021
- SAM WigglesworthTrustee · since 2025
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, Animals
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Ireland
- Website
- www.vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2021
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£771k£686k
- 2024£660k£697k
- 2023£724k£629k
Earlier years
- 2022£45£485
- 2021£0£0
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF AND EDUCATION IN MUSIC; IN PARTICULAR: 3.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD OF THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE LATE RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF PUBLICATION PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING OF HIS WORKS; 3.1.2 THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF PUBLICATION PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING OF MUSIC BY BRITISH, IRISH AND LONG-STANDING UK-RESIDENT COMPOSERS ACTIVE IN THE LAST 100 YEARS; 3.2 THE GRANTING OF ASSISTANCE TO BRITISH, IRISH AND LONG-STANDING UK-RESIDENT COMPOSERS TO FURTHER THEIR MUSICAL EDUCATION WITHIN THE UK FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND 3.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION SEE FIT, HAVING PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE INTERESTS OF THE LATE RALPH AND URSULA VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Sally Hilary Groves Chair since 2021
- Andrew Hunter Johnston since 2021
- Bernard Anthony Watson since 2021
- Dr Raymond Yan Ho Yiu since 2025
- Helen Faulkner since 2021
- Harriet Wybor since 2025
- John Temperley Axon since 2021
- Nicolas John Bell since 2021
- Professor Nicola Lefanu since 2021
- Professor Richard Causton since 2021
- SAM Wigglesworth since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Dr Raymond Yan Ho Yiu since 2025
- Harriet Wybor since 2025
- John Temperley Axon since 2021
- Professor Richard Causton since 2021
- SAM Wigglesworth since 2025
Portfolio (6)
- Sally Hilary Groves Chair since 2021
- Andrew Hunter Johnston since 2021
- Bernard Anthony Watson since 2021
- Helen Faulkner since 2021
- Nicolas John Bell since 2021
- Professor Nicola Lefanu 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.
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
120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1193080
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 12 Jan 2021
- Contact on the register
- 02072233385 · rvw@vaughanwilliamsfoundation.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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