Registered charity · Kent
Whitstable NON-Ecclesiastical Charities
- 9 trustees
- Income £191k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Sharron SonnexChair · since 2018
- Jane ThompsonTrustee · since 2021
- Janet HenleyTrustee · since 2017
- Janet NewcombeTrustee · since 2011
- Joanna WallerTrustee
- Michael John WhiteTrustee · since 2018
- Paulette Joanne StubbingsTrustee · since 2021
- Rev Sally-Ann PickersgillTrustee · since 2025
- Robert SonnexTrustee · since 2019
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
- Kent
- Registered
- 1966
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£191k£206k
- 2023£171k£210k
- 2022£170k£194k
Earlier years
- 2021£166k£193k
- 2020£112k£196k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT 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 OF SUCH PERSONS.
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Sharron Sonnex Chair since 2018
- Janet Newcombe since 2011
- Joanna Waller
- Jane Thompson since 2021
- Janet Henley since 2017
- Michael John White since 2018
- Paulette Joanne Stubbings since 2021
- Rev Sally-Ann Pickersgill since 2025
- Robert Sonnex since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Sharron Sonnex Chair since 2018
- Janet Newcombe since 2011
- Janet Henley since 2017
- Michael John White since 2018
- Robert Sonnex since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Sharron Sonnex Chair since 2018
- Joanna Waller
- Jane Thompson since 2021
- Janet Henley since 2017
- Michael John White since 2018
- Robert Sonnex since 2019
Portfolio (3)
- Janet Newcombe since 2011
- Paulette Joanne Stubbings since 2021
- Rev Sally-Ann Pickersgill since 2025
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
- 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
- 248134
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 25 AUGUST 1978, ORDER DATED 6 FEBRUARY 1990, AND SCHEME DATED 15 OCTOBER 2004.
- Contact on the register
- 07783936927 · woottonchar63@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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