Registered charity · Essex
Southend and District Hospital Radio Service
Southend and District Hospital Radio Service is a registered charity (number 272529) based in Essex, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Joseph Smith since 2016. Latest income £1k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.
Also known as Southend Hospital Radio (Charity Commission)
- 8 trustees
- Income £1k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
- General Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Southend-on-sea
- Website
- www.southendhospitalradio.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1976
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1k£3k
- 2024£4k£6k
- 2023£3k£4k
Earlier years
- 2022£267£4k
- 2021£3k£3k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, INFIRMITY AND OLD AGE AMONGST PERSONS LIVING IN SOUTHEND AND DISTRICT BY PROVIDING A LOCAL BROADCASTING SERVICE FOR SOUTHEND HOSPITAL AND SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHEND-ON-SEA AND A RADIUS OF TWENTY MILES THEREFROM.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Joseph Smith Chair since 2016
- Charles William Palmer since 2021
- Elaine Maureen Mullan
- Kenneth Raymond Bennett since 2021
- Peter Dennis Sipple
- Philip Brian Dorking since 2021
- Richard James Archer since 2021
- Trevor Keith Byford since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Joseph Smith Chair since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Joseph Smith Chair since 2016
- Charles William Palmer since 2021
- Elaine Maureen Mullan
- Kenneth Raymond Bennett since 2021
- Peter Dennis Sipple
- Philip Brian Dorking since 2021
- Richard James Archer since 2021
- Trevor Keith Byford since 2021
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
- 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
- 272529
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 17TH JUNE 1976, AS AMENDED ON THE 21ST JANUARY 1986 AND 27 MARCH 2007 as amended on 13 Apr 2021
- Contact on the register
- 01702338181 · station@southendhospitalradio.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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