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The Chemical Engineers Benevolent Fund
- 6 trustees
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr John Stewart MayTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Patricia Mary Melton FichemeTrustee · since 2017
- Dr Rachel Brigid Cooke FichemeTrustee · since 2025
- James Douglas Mcgillivray FichemeTrustee · since 2021
- Professor Geoffrey Colin Maitland CBE FrengTrustee · since 2017
- Professor Stephen Michael RichardsonTrustee · since 2022
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 1 other charity:
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and more
- Website
- www.chemengbenfund.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2025
Charitable objects
TO ASSIST MEMBERS AND EX-MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NECESSITOUS OR STRAIGHTENED CIRCUMSTANCES.
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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.
6 trustees on the board
- Dr John Stewart May since 2024
- Dr Patricia Mary Melton Ficheme since 2017
- Dr Rachel Brigid Cooke Ficheme since 2025
- James Douglas Mcgillivray Ficheme since 2021
- Professor Geoffrey Colin Maitland CBE Freng since 2017
- Professor Stephen Michael Richardson since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Patricia Mary Melton Ficheme since 2017
- Professor Geoffrey Colin Maitland CBE Freng since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Dr Rachel Brigid Cooke Ficheme since 2025
Portfolio (5)
- Dr John Stewart May since 2024
- Dr Patricia Mary Melton Ficheme since 2017
- James Douglas Mcgillivray Ficheme since 2021
- Professor Geoffrey Colin Maitland CBE Freng since 2017
- Professor Stephen Michael Richardson 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.
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1215722
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 11 Nov 2025
- Contact on the register
- +4401788578214 · support@chemengbenfund.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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