Registered charity · Reading
Reading Festival Chorus
- 9 trustees
- Income £33k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Alison Janet AllenChair · since 2024
- Dr Nicholas Thomas Morris RobertsTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Thomas Edward WallTrustee · since 2024
- Helen Mary Shirley-QuirkTrustee · since 2025
- Jane BazleyTrustee · since 2021
- Margaret CocksTrustee · since 2022
- Rachel Mary PatonTrustee · since 2025
- Sarah Elizabeth HamiltonTrustee · since 2020
- Sue MithenTrustee · since 2021
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- West Berkshire, Reading, Wokingham, Oxfordshire
- Website
- www.readingfestivalchorus.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1967
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£33k£40k
- 2024£28k£23k
- 2023£24k£25k
Earlier years
- 2022£19k£20k
- 2021£10k£8k
Charitable objects
THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE CHORUS SHALL BE TO FOSTER PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF CHORAL MUSIC BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT INCLUDING:(A) GIVING MEMBERS OF THE CHORUS THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY AND PRACTISE SUCH MUSIC.(B) THE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF SUCH MUSIC.
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
- Alison Janet Allen Chair since 2024
- Dr Nicholas Thomas Morris Roberts since 2021
- Dr Thomas Edward Wall since 2024
- Helen Mary Shirley-Quirk since 2025
- Jane Bazley since 2021
- Margaret Cocks since 2022
- Rachel Mary Paton since 2025
- Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton since 2020
- Sue Mithen since 2021
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Alison Janet Allen Chair since 2024
- Dr Nicholas Thomas Morris Roberts since 2021
- Dr Thomas Edward Wall since 2024
- Helen Mary Shirley-Quirk since 2025
- Jane Bazley since 2021
- Margaret Cocks since 2022
- Rachel Mary Paton since 2025
- Sue Mithen since 2021
Portfolio (1)
- Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton since 2020
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.
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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
- 254201
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 11 FEBRUARY 1946 AS AMENDED 9 OCTOBER 1967 AND 10 OCTOBER 1994.AS AMENDED ON 11/10/2010AS AMENDED ON 26/05/2015AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 03 OCT 2016 as amended on 27 Nov 2023 as amended on 25 Nov 2024
- Contact on the register
- 01189660128 · Treasurer@readingfestivalchorus.org.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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