Registered charity · Blackpool Lancs
Blackpool Operatic Players
- 10 trustees
- Income £58k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Danny HickesChair · since 2023
- Chris ThorntonTrustee · since 2019
- Gillian LEETrustee
- Jane France SeddonTrustee · since 2021
- John ChestersTrustee
- Karen Lesley-Anne GrayTrustee
- Marian J ChestersTrustee · since 2023
- Nigel TaylorTrustee · since 2025
- Sheila HarrisTrustee · since 2023
- Toni ForshawTrustee · since 2023
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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Recreation
- Where
- Blackpool
- Website
- www.blackpooloperaticplayers.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1971
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£58k£56k
- 2024£73k£70k
- 2023£101k£81k
Earlier years
- 2022£85k£76k
- 2021£11£29
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS AND TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTE IN THE SAID ARTS.
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
- Danny Hickes Chair since 2023
- Chris Thornton since 2019
- Gillian LEE
- Jane France Seddon since 2021
- John Chesters
- Karen Lesley-Anne Gray
- Marian J Chesters since 2023
- Nigel Taylor since 2025
- Sheila Harris since 2023
- Toni Forshaw since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Chris Thornton since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Danny Hickes Chair since 2023
- Chris Thornton since 2019
- Gillian LEE
- Jane France Seddon since 2021
- John Chesters
- Karen Lesley-Anne Gray
- Marian J Chesters since 2023
- Nigel Taylor since 2025
- Sheila Harris since 2023
- Toni Forshaw since 2023
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
- 500663
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RULES ADOPTED 3 JUNE 1970
- Contact on the register
- 01253700912 · mjc-allsquare@hotmail.co.uk
- 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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