Registered charity · Heathfield
The Historical Metallurgy Society Limited
- 16 trustees
- Income £23k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Michael CharltonChair · since 2022
- Bart Johannes Theodorus CornelisTrustee · since 2026
- Carlotta FarciTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Berber Sanderijn van der MeulenTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Florian TereygeolTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Jonathan Lech PrusTrustee · since 2014
- Dr Justine Cecily BayleyTrustee
- Dr Maria Florencia BecerraTrustee · since 2023
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- Dr Paul RondelezTrustee · since 2015
- Dr Peter Wickham KingTrustee
- Dr Vanessa CastagninoTrustee · since 2026
- Dr Vanessa CheelTrustee · since 2022
- Eric Alexander Scott NordgrenTrustee · since 2023
- John Lincoln Mark CranfieldTrustee · since 2021
- Michael Edmund John BirchTrustee · since 2023
- Thomas Oliver PryceTrustee · since 2026
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 5 other charities:
- Agape Outreach · 1 shared trustee
- Wealden Iron Research Group · 1 shared trustee
- The Chawn Hill Foundation · 1 shared trustee
- The Worcestershire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England · 1 shared trustee
- The Early Metals Research Trust · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.historicalmetallurgy.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Historical Metallurgy Society Limited(the)
- Registered
- 1980
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£23k£12k
- 2024£20k£11k
- 2023£15k£5k
Earlier years
- 2022£19k£7k
- 2021£58k£18k
Charitable objects
TO EDUCATE ANDINSTRUCT THE PUBLIC BY THE FURTHERANCE OF THE STUDY, INVESTIGATION, DESCRIPTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXTRACTION AND PREPARATION OF ORES AND OTHER RELEVANT MINERALS, OF THE SMELTING AND WORKING OF METALS, OF THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF METAL OBJECTS AND OF OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES.
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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.
16 trustees on the board
- Dr Michael Charlton Chair since 2022
- Bart Johannes Theodorus Cornelis since 2026
- Carlotta Farci since 2025
- Dr Berber Sanderijn van der Meulen since 2024
- Dr Florian Tereygeol since 2024
- Dr Justine Cecily Bayley
- Dr Jonathan Lech Prus since 2014
- Dr Maria Florencia Becerra since 2023
- Dr Peter Wickham King
- Dr Paul Rondelez since 2015
- Dr Vanessa Castagnino since 2026
- Dr Vanessa Cheel since 2022
- Eric Alexander Scott Nordgren since 2023
- John Lincoln Mark Cranfield since 2021
- Michael Edmund John Birch since 2023
- Thomas Oliver Pryce since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Jonathan Lech Prus since 2014
- Dr Paul Rondelez since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (14)
- Dr Michael Charlton Chair since 2022
- Bart Johannes Theodorus Cornelis since 2026
- Carlotta Farci since 2025
- Dr Berber Sanderijn van der Meulen since 2024
- Dr Florian Tereygeol since 2024
- Dr Justine Cecily Bayley
- Dr Maria Florencia Becerra since 2023
- Dr Paul Rondelez since 2015
- Dr Vanessa Castagnino since 2026
- Dr Vanessa Cheel since 2022
- Eric Alexander Scott Nordgren since 2023
- John Lincoln Mark Cranfield since 2021
- Michael Edmund John Birch since 2023
- Thomas Oliver Pryce since 2026
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Jonathan Lech Prus since 2014
- Dr Peter Wickham King
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.
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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
- 279314
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/08/1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/05/2012 as amended on 26 Sep 2019 as amended on 05 Jun 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 01442508 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01435830155 · treasurer@historicalmetallurgy.org
- 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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