Registered charity · Wellington
League of Friends Musgrove Park Hospital
- 12 trustees
- Income £1.5m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
Network
The large node is League of Friends Musgrove Park Hospital. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.
Who leads it
- Nigel Kenneth HandburyChair · since 2015
- Anne BartabyTrustee
- Colin HawkinsTrustee
- Colin Richard BarrellTrustee · since 2021
- Elizabeth KingstonTrustee
- Hilary CorcoranTrustee
- Jasmine LucasTrustee · since 2021
- Josephine ParsonsTrustee
- Nicholas BoothTrustee · since 2025
- Peter Michael SwinburnTrustee · since 2025
- Rachel SwinburnTrustee · since 2025
- Susan EwanTrustee · since 2012
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
About
- What it does
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- Somerset
- Website
- www.leagueoffriendsmusgrovepark.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Hospital Friends (Taunton) Limited
- Registered
- 1967
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.5m£969k
- 2024£627k£2.2m
- 2023£1.6m£544k
Earlier years
- 2022£764k£457k
- 2021£913k£695k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO MOBILISE, ENCOURAGE, FOSTER AND MAINTAIN THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PATIENTS AND THE SUPPORT OF THE WORK OF THE HOSPITALS BY MEANS OF VOLUNTARY SERVICE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CONSTITUTION).
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
- Nigel Kenneth Handbury Chair since 2015
- Anne Bartaby
- Colin Hawkins
- Colin Richard Barrell since 2021
- Elizabeth Kingston
- Hilary Corcoran
- Josephine Parsons
- Jasmine Lucas since 2021
- Nicholas Booth since 2025
- Peter Michael Swinburn since 2025
- Rachel Swinburn since 2025
- Susan Ewan since 2012
Trustees past 6 years
- Nigel Kenneth Handbury Chair since 2015
- Susan Ewan since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Anne Bartaby
- Colin Hawkins
- Colin Richard Barrell since 2021
- Elizabeth Kingston
- Josephine Parsons
- Jasmine Lucas since 2021
- Nicholas Booth since 2025
- Peter Michael Swinburn since 2025
- Rachel Swinburn since 2025
- Susan Ewan since 2012
Portfolio (2)
- Nigel Kenneth Handbury Chair since 2015
- Hilary Corcoran
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
28.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 32.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 250797
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 02 MAR 1964AS AMENDED ON 01 JUN 1995AS AMENDED ON 01 MAY 1998AS AMENDED ON 29 JUN 2009AS AMENDED ON 27 JUN 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 02559526 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01823672325 · info@leagueoffriendsmusgrovepark.co.uk
- 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data