Registered charity · London
The Egypt Exploration Society
- 13 trustees
- Income £1.2m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Leire OlabarriaChair · since 2024
- Dr Abeer EladanyTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Jennifer CromwellTrustee · since 2022
- Dr John BaguleyTrustee · since 2020
- Dr Kathleen SheppardTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Tobias StoneTrustee · since 2024
- Hilary McgowanTrustee · since 2023
- James PottsTrustee · since 2021
- Jenny ChongTrustee · since 2021
- Lizzie Glithero-West FSATrustee · since 2021
- Margaret Susan PrestonTrustee · since 2025
- Robert LeeTrustee · since 2025
- Yvette Mhic Giolla Rua AdebanjoTrustee · since 2023
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
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Egypt
- Website
- www.ees.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Egypt Exploration Society
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.2m£542k
- 2024£510k£560k
- 2023£614k£530k
Earlier years
- 2022£419k£385k
- 2021£341k£291k
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC WITH REFERENCE TO ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EGYPT AND COUNTRIES IN THE SAME REGION; ANDTO PROMOTE ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE BY RAISING THE KNOWLEDGE, AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE LANGUAGE, HISTORY, ARTS, CULTURE, RELIGION AND ALL OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EGYPT AND COUNTRIES IN THE SAME REGION.
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.
13 trustees on the board
- Dr Leire Olabarria Chair since 2024
- Dr Abeer Eladany since 2022
- Dr Jennifer Cromwell since 2022
- Dr John Baguley since 2020
- Dr Kathleen Sheppard since 2025
- Dr Tobias Stone since 2024
- Hilary Mcgowan since 2023
- James Potts since 2021
- Jenny Chong since 2021
- Lizzie Glithero-West FSA since 2021
- Margaret Susan Preston since 2025
- Robert Lee since 2025
- Yvette Mhic Giolla Rua Adebanjo since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Dr Leire Olabarria Chair since 2024
- Dr Jennifer Cromwell since 2022
- Dr John Baguley since 2020
- Dr Kathleen Sheppard since 2025
- Dr Tobias Stone since 2024
- Hilary Mcgowan since 2023
- James Potts since 2021
- Lizzie Glithero-West FSA since 2021
- Robert Lee since 2025
- Yvette Mhic Giolla Rua Adebanjo since 2023
Portfolio (3)
- Dr Abeer Eladany since 2022
- Jenny Chong since 2021
- Margaret Susan Preston 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
4.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 212384
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATING FROM 1888, AS AMENDED ON 20 OCTOBER 1966, 14 OCTOBER 1970, 29 JUNE 1972, 13 OCTOBER 1976, 12 OCTOBER 1983, 26 JUNE 2004 AND 13 DECEMBER 2008 AND 10 DECEMBER 2011 as amended on 22 Jul 2017 as amended on 21 Nov 2020 as amended on 26 Nov 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 00025816 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02072421880 · contact@ees.ac.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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