Registered charity · Sheffield
OLD School Charity
- 6 trustees
- Income £17k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Alan HooperChair
- Andrew RickardsTrustee · since 2014
- Gillian BarnabyTrustee · since 2012
- Mark Robert EllisTrustee · since 2025
- Richard GodleyTrustee
- TOM BlandfordTrustee · since 2012
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 3 other charities:
- The HUB AT Gladstone LTD · 1 shared trustee
- Cannon Mill Trust CIO · 1 shared trustee
- Friends of Grenoside Green Trust · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Sheffield City
- Website
- www.grenosidereadingroom.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- OLD School Charity (Trustees)
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£17k£8k
- 2024£16k£9k
- 2023£15k£9k
Earlier years
- 2022£11k£5k
- 2021£5k£6k
Charitable objects
UPKEEP AND MAINTENANCE OF READING ROOM AND LIBRARY
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Alan Hooper Chair
- Andrew Rickards since 2014
- Gillian Barnaby since 2012
- Mark Robert Ellis since 2025
- Richard Godley
- TOM Blandford since 2012
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Rickards since 2014
- Gillian Barnaby since 2012
- TOM Blandford since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Alan Hooper Chair
- Andrew Rickards since 2014
- Mark Robert Ellis since 2025
- TOM Blandford since 2012
Portfolio (2)
- Gillian Barnaby since 2012
- Richard Godley
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
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
- 225973
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEMES OF 26 MAR 1895 AND 13 JUL 1928 AS AMENDED BY A SCHEME OF THE COMMISSIONERS DATED 16TH SEPT 2005, ORDER DATED 3 AUG 2006 AND RESOLUTION DATED 4 OCT 2007.
- Companies House
- Company number 08022483 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01142463692 · info@grenosidereadingroom.co.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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