Registered charity · Preston
Blackburn Music Society
- 9 trustees
- Income £16k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Gillian BroomChair · since 2017
- Alan RatcliffeTrustee · since 2023
- Carolyn HigginsTrustee · since 2023
- Christine Ann LenaughanTrustee · since 2015
- Elizabeth HackingTrustee · since 2017
- Karen Frances MccarterTrustee · since 2025
- Kathryn Elizabeth FulwellTrustee · since 2022
- Peter AsherTrustee · since 2019
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- Sarah WealTrustee · since 2016
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:
- West Pennine Moors Methodist Circuit · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Blackburn With Darwen
- Website
- blackburnmusicsociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1971
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£16k£16k
- 2024£15k£15k
- 2023£15k£12k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£10k
- 2021£3k£4k
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE IMPROVE DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC BY THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, AND FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE COMMITTEE MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE
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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.
9 trustees on the board
- Gillian Broom Chair since 2017
- Alan Ratcliffe since 2023
- Carolyn Higgins since 2023
- Christine Ann Lenaughan since 2015
- Elizabeth Hacking since 2017
- Karen Frances Mccarter since 2025
- Kathryn Elizabeth Fulwell since 2022
- Peter Asher since 2019
- Sarah Weal since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Gillian Broom Chair since 2017
- Christine Ann Lenaughan since 2015
- Elizabeth Hacking since 2017
- Peter Asher since 2019
- Sarah Weal since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Gillian Broom Chair since 2017
- Alan Ratcliffe since 2023
- Carolyn Higgins since 2023
- Christine Ann Lenaughan since 2015
- Elizabeth Hacking since 2017
- Karen Frances Mccarter since 2025
- Kathryn Elizabeth Fulwell since 2022
- Peter Asher since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Sarah Weal since 2016
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
- 500709
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 25/01/1971AS AMENDED ON 08/05/1972AS AMENDED ON 11/03/1974AS AMENDED ON 11/05/1981AS AMENDED ON 14/06/2004AS AMENDED ON 29/02/2016
- Contact on the register
- 07896513120 · BBMUSICSOC@GMAIL.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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