Registered charity · Taunton
Somerset Record Society
- 11 trustees
- Income £6k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Robert William DunningChair
- Adrian James WebbTrustee
- Christopher John EldridgeTrustee · since 2023
- David BromwichTrustee
- David Xavier VictorTrustee · since 2019
- Dr John GaisfordTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Melanie Jane DevineTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Philip Julian NorreyTrustee · since 2023
- Professor Michael HicksTrustee · since 2018
- Professor Nicholas OrmeTrustee
- William Hew John HancockTrustee · since 2018
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Somerset
- Website
- www.somersetrecordsociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1964
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£6k£11k
- 2024£9k£6k
- 2023£5k£17k
Earlier years
- 2022£4k£7k
- 2021£4k£2k
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING AND THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN LOCAL HISTORY AND THE PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT RECORDS RELATING TO THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET BY THEIR TRANSCRIPTION AND PUBLICATION SO THAT THEIR CONTENTS MAY BE MADE GENERALLY AVAILABLE.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Dr Robert William Dunning Chair
- Adrian James Webb
- Christopher John Eldridge since 2023
- David Bromwich
- David Xavier Victor since 2019
- Dr John Gaisford since 2023
- Dr Melanie Jane Devine since 2023
- Dr Philip Julian Norrey since 2023
- Professor Nicholas Orme
- Professor Michael Hicks since 2018
- William Hew John Hancock since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- David Xavier Victor since 2019
- Professor Michael Hicks since 2018
- William Hew John Hancock since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Christopher John Eldridge since 2023
- David Bromwich
- David Xavier Victor since 2019
- Dr John Gaisford since 2023
- Dr Melanie Jane Devine since 2023
- Dr Philip Julian Norrey since 2023
- Professor Nicholas Orme
- Professor Michael Hicks since 2018
- William Hew John Hancock since 2018
Portfolio (2)
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
- 310292
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RULES ADOPTED 11TH MAY 1963.
- Contact on the register
- 01823680197 · davidbromwich@freeolamail.com
- 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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