Registered charity · Northampton

Northamptonshire Record Society

15 trustees
Income £32k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where: Northamptonshire
Website: www.northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1962

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£32k£28k
2024£24k£36k
2023£32k£27k

Earlier years

2022£24k£17k
2021£22k£21k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

A) EDITING & PUBLICATION OF ORIGINAL DOCS & OTHER MATERIAL RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIREB)STIMULATION OF INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE BY THE ARRANGING FROM TIME TO TIME OF LECTURES AT VARIOUS PLACES IN THE COUNTY & BY OTHER MEANSC)THE MAINTENANCE OF A LIBRARY AND ITS FURNISHINGS FOR THE BENEFITS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETYD) THE CARE OF MANUSCRIPTS BOOKS PAINTINGS ARTEFACTS AND OTHER OBJECTS WHICH MAY BE GIVEN OR LENT TO THE SOCIETY FROM TIME TO TIME

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.

15 trustees on the board

4.3y median 3y

average tenure

12y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Deborah Hayter MA Chair since 2015
Dr N E Karn since 2014
Dr Wendy Raybould PhD since 2016
Margaret Hawkins MA MSc since 2017

6.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (3)

Charles Stuart Bell CBE since 2023
Dr N E Karn since 2014
Martin Gaskell since 2026

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 15Education/training 15Environment/conservation/heritage 15

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 1Education 1Professional services 1

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£32k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 204957
Status: Registered
Governing document: RULES ADOPTED DECEMBER 1920, AS AMENDED 11 JUNE 1955, 5 JUNE 1971, 2 MAY 1987 AND 15 MAY 1993.
Contact on the register: 01604762297 · secretary@northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 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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