Registered charity · Warwick
The Brandwood Trust
- 12 trustees
- Income £12k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Colonel BOB CarruthersChair
- Brigadier David John Paterson OBETrustee · since 2025
- Captain Simon HawkerTrustee · since 2021
- Colonel Richard Lindsay Cariss MBE TD DLTrustee
- Lieutenant Colonel Richard Gale TDTrustee
- Major Anthony Norman Smith TDTrustee · since 2024
- Major Bill EdmondsTrustee
- Major John LamTrustee · since 2021
- Major Richard George MillsTrustee · since 2021
- Major Stephen Denis HusseyTrustee · since 2021
- Michael Murray Stuart RichardsTrustee · since 2017
- MR John RiceTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell and more
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£12k£23k
- 2024£14k£38k
- 2023£14k£13k
Earlier years
- 2022£11k£8k
- 2021£13k£7k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY NON-COMMISSIONED PERSONNEL THEIR SPOUSES OR OTHER DEPENDANTS WHO HAVE SERVED OR ARE SERVING IN THE EXISTING OR FORMER UNITS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR SUCH PERSONSTO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE EXISTING UNIT BY INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF ITS SERVING NON-COMMISSIONED PERSONNEL IN SUCH WAYS AS THE MANAGING TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP BY COMMEMORATION AND REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES OR SUFFERED INJURY, OR PUT THEMSELVES AT RISK OF LOSS OF LIFE OR INJURY, IN SERVICE OF THE PUBLIC.
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Colonel BOB Carruthers Chair
- Brigadier David John Paterson OBE since 2025
- Colonel Richard Lindsay Cariss MBE TD DL
- Captain Simon Hawker since 2021
- Lieutenant Colonel Richard Gale TD
- Major Bill Edmonds
- MR John Rice
- Major Anthony Norman Smith TD since 2024
- Major John Lam since 2021
- Major Richard George Mills since 2021
- Major Stephen Denis Hussey since 2021
- Michael Murray Stuart Richards since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Michael Murray Stuart Richards since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Michael Murray Stuart Richards since 2017
Portfolio (11)
- Colonel BOB Carruthers Chair
- Brigadier David John Paterson OBE since 2025
- Colonel Richard Lindsay Cariss MBE TD DL
- Captain Simon Hawker since 2021
- Lieutenant Colonel Richard Gale TD
- Major Bill Edmonds
- MR John Rice
- Major Anthony Norman Smith TD since 2024
- Major John Lam since 2021
- Major Richard George Mills since 2021
- Major Stephen Denis Hussey since 2021
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
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 220433
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME DATED 06/07/1994AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 13/06/2005AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 09/11/2011
- Contact on the register
- 01926 491653 · bobjcarruthers@gmail.com
- 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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