Registered charity · Coventry
SIR Thomas White's Charity
- 9 trustees
- Income £3.4m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Paul Derek MeredithChair · since 2016
- Anthony Edward Tyre ForsythTrustee · since 2014
- Christopher Peter Trye MA MSC FCATrustee
- David LoweTrustee · since 2026
- Ian Sinclair GrindalTrustee · since 2023
- Martin Jonathan GibbsTrustee · since 2026
- Richard Michael Hardy F R I C STrustee
- Roger Vincent Wiglesworth DL FricsTrustee
- Vanessa JackaTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Where
- City Of London, Coventry City, Nottingham City, Northamptonshire and more
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.4m£3.3m
- 2024£3.2m£3.3m
- 2023£3.1m£3.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.8m£2.9m
- 2021£2.8m£2.7m
Charitable objects
TO DISTRIBUTE PART OF INCOME FOR THE BENEFIT OF EACH OF THE CITIES OR TOWNS OF COVENTRY, NORTHAMPTON, LEICESTER, NOTTINGHAM AND WARWICK.
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Paul Derek Meredith Chair since 2016
- Anthony Edward Tyre Forsyth since 2014
- Christopher Peter Trye MA MSC FCA
- David Lowe since 2026
- Ian Sinclair Grindal since 2023
- Martin Jonathan Gibbs since 2026
- Richard Michael Hardy F R I C S
- Roger Vincent Wiglesworth DL Frics
- Vanessa Jacka since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Paul Derek Meredith Chair since 2016
- Anthony Edward Tyre Forsyth since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Paul Derek Meredith Chair since 2016
- Anthony Edward Tyre Forsyth since 2014
- Christopher Peter Trye MA MSC FCA
- David Lowe since 2026
- Martin Jonathan Gibbs since 2026
- Richard Michael Hardy F R I C S
- Roger Vincent Wiglesworth DL Frics
- Vanessa Jacka since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Ian Sinclair Grindal since 2023
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.
Gaps to watch
- 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.0 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
- 218626
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 6 JULY 1551 AS AMENDED BY SCHEMES OF THE 21 MAY 1958, 18 DECEMBER 1967, 31 MAY 1973, 10 MARCH 1982, 23 MARCH 1984, 10 JULY 1991 AND 26 OCTOBER 1994
- Contact on the register
- 02476226684 · coventry@godfrey-payton.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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