Registered charity · Colchester
Friends of Colchester Museums and ART Galleries
- 8 trustees
- Income £17k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Raymond Ian CantrellChair · since 2022
- Elizabeth Mary AndersonTrustee · since 2022
- Geoffrey Michael FennTrustee · since 2022
- Joy HopkinsonTrustee · since 2022
- Michael ConnellTrustee · since 2021
- Ms M DaleTrustee · since 2015
- Peter EvansTrustee
- Roy John AndersonTrustee · since 2019
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 1 other charity:
- Colchester Civic Society · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- www.tfocm.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1964
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£17k£16k
- 2024£55k£17k
- 2023£11k£8k
Earlier years
- 2022£9k£8k
- 2021£7k£10k
Charitable objects
1. TO STIMULATE INTEREST IN THE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY BY MEETINGS AND LECTURES AND TO PROMOTE A FULLER KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR CONTENTS. 2. TO FURTHER THE WORTH AND WELL-BEING OF THE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY.
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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
- Raymond Ian Cantrell Chair since 2022
- Elizabeth Mary Anderson since 2022
- Geoffrey Michael Fenn since 2022
- Joy Hopkinson since 2022
- Michael Connell since 2021
- Ms M Dale since 2015
- Peter Evans
- Roy John Anderson since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Ms M Dale since 2015
- Roy John Anderson since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Raymond Ian Cantrell Chair since 2022
- Elizabeth Mary Anderson since 2022
- Geoffrey Michael Fenn since 2022
- Joy Hopkinson since 2022
- Michael Connell since 2021
- Ms M Dale since 2015
- Roy John Anderson since 2019
Portfolio (1)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
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- No commercial or business experience on the board
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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
- 310669
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RULES AS AMENDED 1 MARCH 1949 & 9 MARCH 1993
- Contact on the register
- 01206540990 · peter.evans7978@btinternet.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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