Registered charity · Somerset
The Friends of Wincanton Community Hospital
- 8 trustees
- Income £37k (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
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 3 more
- Where
- Dorset, Somerset
- Registered
- 1987
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£37k£23k
- 2024£32k£15k
- 2023£37k£45k
Earlier years
- 2022£8k£17k
- 2021£12k£16k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE HEALTH BY SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE WORK OF WINCANTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AND IMPROVING THE EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS, VISITORS AND STAFF AT THE HOSPITALTO RELIEVE AND BENEFIT THOSE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY DISADVANTAGED OR INFIRM
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
- Charles Downton Chair
- Alex Short since 2026
- Andrew Chesterman since 2005
- Gillian Oaten since 2023
- Ian Henry James Piper since 2022
- Sandra Grimstead since 2020
- Sebastian Aptakre-Davis since 2025
- Vivien Armson since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Chesterman since 2005
- Sandra Grimstead since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Charles Downton Chair
- Alex Short since 2026
- Andrew Chesterman since 2005
- Gillian Oaten since 2023
- Ian Henry James Piper since 2022
- Sandra Grimstead since 2020
- Sebastian Aptakre-Davis since 2025
- Vivien Armson 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
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
- 296475
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RULES ADOPTED 1ST DECEMBER 1986 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTIONS DATED 14 MARCH 2000 AND 16 SEPTEMBER 2010.AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 29 JUL 2022
- Contact on the register
- 01963824539 · vivienarmson@gmail.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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