Registered charity · Kent
Whitstable and District Choral Society
- 10 trustees
- Income £21k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Jean GrayChair · since 2021
- Brenda FeastTrustee · since 2021
- David Thomas Liston-JonesTrustee · since 2019
- Joanne Caroline PooleTrustee · since 2022
- Kirsten Jane ValentineTrustee · since 2023
- Martin Charles PrestageTrustee · since 2025
- Naomi KernighanTrustee · since 2023
- Nicola LeggattTrustee · since 2023
- Richard EdwardsTrustee · since 2016
- Russell FeastTrustee · since 2016
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
- Kent
- Website
- www.whitstablechoral.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1985
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£21k£22k
- 2024£21k£28k
- 2023£18k£26k
Earlier years
- 2022£11k£11k
- 2021£5k£5k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE SOCIETY THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE.
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Jean Gray Chair since 2021
- Brenda Feast since 2021
- David Thomas Liston-Jones since 2019
- Joanne Caroline Poole since 2022
- Kirsten Jane Valentine since 2023
- Martin Charles Prestage since 2025
- Naomi Kernighan since 2023
- Nicola Leggatt since 2023
- Russell Feast since 2016
- Richard Edwards since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- David Thomas Liston-Jones since 2019
- Russell Feast since 2016
- Richard Edwards since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Jean Gray Chair since 2021
- Brenda Feast since 2021
- David Thomas Liston-Jones since 2019
- Joanne Caroline Poole since 2022
- Kirsten Jane Valentine since 2023
- Martin Charles Prestage since 2025
- Naomi Kernighan since 2023
- Nicola Leggatt since 2023
- Russell Feast since 2016
- Richard Edwards since 2016
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
- 291589
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 13TH FEBRUARY 1985
- Contact on the register
- 01227 750576 · wcs@whitstablechoral.org
- 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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