Registered charity · Hereford
Herefordshire Family History Society
- 10 trustees
- Income £7k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Alan John CharlesTrustee
- Colin MeredithTrustee
- Eleanor Rosemary AtkinTrustee
- Jane Angela COXTrustee
- Kate SmedleyTrustee · since 2025
- Linda Ann LloydTrustee · since 2021
- Norman PriceTrustee · since 2016
- Philip Geoffrey Thomas BuftonTrustee
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- Robert Osmond PowellTrustee · since 2022
- Sheila GriegTrustee · since 2018
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:
- Cymdeithas Hanes Teuluoedd Powys/Powys Family History Society · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Herefordshire
- Website
- www.herefordshirefhs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1986
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£7k£7k
- 2024£7k£4k
- 2023£7k£4k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£7k
- 2021£7k£4k
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY SHALL BE:- A) TO PROVIDE AND ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC STUDY OF FAMILY HISTORY, GENEALOGY, HERALDRY AND LOCAL HISTORY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO HEREFORDSHIRE. B) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION, SECURITY AND ACCESSIBLILTY OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL.
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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.
10 trustees on the board
- Alan John Charles
- Colin Meredith
- Eleanor Rosemary Atkin
- Jane Angela COX
- Kate Smedley since 2025
- Linda Ann Lloyd since 2021
- Norman Price since 2016
- Philip Geoffrey Thomas Bufton
- Robert Osmond Powell since 2022
- Sheila Grieg since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Norman Price since 2016
- Sheila Grieg since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Alan John Charles
- Colin Meredith
- Eleanor Rosemary Atkin
- Jane Angela COX
- Kate Smedley since 2025
- Linda Ann Lloyd since 2021
- Norman Price since 2016
- Robert Osmond Powell since 2022
- Sheila Grieg since 2018
Portfolio (1)
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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
- 517785
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 10TH MAY 1986 AS AMENDED 21 MAY 1993.
- Contact on the register
- 01432355723 · philbufton@hotmail.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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