Registered charity · East Sussex
Sussex Opera and Ballet Society
- 6 trustees
- Income £3k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- East Sussex, West Sussex, Throughout London
- Website
- www.sussexoperaandballetsociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1976
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3k£8k
- 2024£12k£9k
- 2023£7k£7k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£7k
- 2021£1k£5k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF MUSIC, BY THE PRESENTATION OF OPERA, BALLET AND DRAMA BY HOLDING EVENTS TO THIS PURPOSE. TO PROVIDE BURSARIES TO PROMISING STUDENTS STUDYING BALLET AND OPERA, NORMALLY ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE TEACHERS OF THE INSTITUTES CONCERNED PROVIDED THERE ARE SUFFICIENT FUNDS WITHIN THE SOCIETY.
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Peter Hobden Chair since 2014
- Barbara Greaves since 2021
- Deborah Ann Hatfield since 2023
- Dirk Hazell since 2026
- Jessie Louise Cullen since 2024
- Valerie Hobden since 2014
Trustees past 6 years
- Peter Hobden Chair since 2014
- Valerie Hobden since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Barbara Greaves since 2021
- Dirk Hazell since 2026
- Jessie Louise Cullen since 2024
- Valerie Hobden since 2014
Portfolio (2)
- Peter Hobden Chair since 2014
- Deborah Ann Hatfield since 2023
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
- 271113
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 4 MAY 1975 AND AMENDED 29 SEPTEMBER 1991, 14 MARCH 1993, 16 MARCH 1997, 28 APRIL 2002 AND 19 NOVEMBER 2005 as amended on 27 Jan 2019 as amended on 01 Dec 2020
- Contact on the register
- 01323638021 · deborah.hatfield@btinternet.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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