Registered charity (CIO) · London
The Bach Choir
- 16 trustees
- Income £443k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Alexander Charles ChurchillTrustee · since 2025
- Alison Joan CarterTrustee · since 2025
- David Neil HillTrustee · since 2025
- Jenny ClarkeTrustee · since 2025
- Jill PringleTrustee · since 2025
- Julien AllenTrustee · since 2025
- Katharine Susan RichmanTrustee · since 2025
- Laura Jane PlumptreTrustee · since 2025
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- Lily Angharad GermanTrustee · since 2025
- Mark Benjamin AndersonTrustee · since 2025
- Melanie MarshallTrustee · since 2026
- Michael Jonathan Charles WhiteheadTrustee · since 2025
- Naomi Alexandra TaylorTrustee · since 2026
- Richard Clive BlackfordTrustee · since 2025
- Rufus Nathaniel Abbott StilgoeTrustee · since 2025
- Thomas Phillip O'ReillyTrustee · 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 5 other charities:
- Rutland Historic Churches Preservation Trust · 1 shared trustee
- The Bach Choir 1876 - 2024 · 1 shared trustee
- Cambridge University Musical Society · 1 shared trustee
- I Fagiolini Charitable Trust · 1 shared trustee
- Keyboard Charitable Trust for Young Professional Performers · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- thebachchoir.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2024
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£443k£465k
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UK AND BEYOND, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS FORMS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCES OF CHORAL MUSIC AND PROMOTING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF, AND PARTICIPATION IN, CHORAL MUSIC.
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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.
16 trustees on the board
- Alexander Charles Churchill since 2025
- Alison Joan Carter since 2025
- David Neil Hill since 2025
- Jenny Clarke since 2025
- Jill Pringle since 2025
- Julien Allen since 2025
- Katharine Susan Richman since 2025
- Laura Jane Plumptre since 2025
- Lily Angharad German since 2025
- Mark Benjamin Anderson since 2025
- Melanie Marshall since 2026
- Michael Jonathan Charles Whitehead since 2025
- Naomi Alexandra Taylor since 2026
- Richard Clive Blackford since 2025
- Rufus Nathaniel Abbott Stilgoe since 2025
- Thomas Phillip O'Reilly since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Alexander Charles Churchill since 2025
- Alison Joan Carter since 2025
- Jenny Clarke since 2025
- Jill Pringle since 2025
- Julien Allen since 2025
- Laura Jane Plumptre since 2025
- Lily Angharad German since 2025
- Mark Benjamin Anderson since 2025
- Melanie Marshall since 2026
- Richard Clive Blackford since 2025
- Thomas Phillip O'Reilly since 2025
Portfolio (5)
- David Neil Hill since 2025
- Katharine Susan Richman since 2025
- Michael Jonathan Charles Whitehead since 2025
- Naomi Alexandra Taylor since 2026
- Rufus Nathaniel Abbott Stilgoe 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.
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1207346
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 07 Mar 2024
- Contact on the register
- 02071274677 · genman@thebachchoir.org.uk
- 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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