Registered charity · West Sussex
The Society of the Guildford Symphony Orchestra
- 7 trustees
- Income £44k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
Network
The large node is The Society of the Guildford Symphony Orchestra. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Surrey
- Website
- www.g-s-o.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1990
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£44k£47k
- 2024£42k£44k
- 2023£35k£32k
Earlier years
- 2022£28k£32k
- 2021£7k£7k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(A) TO PROMOTE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE SOCIETY THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME; AND (B) IN PARTICULAR, IN ORDER TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE KNOWLEDGE, APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC IN THE COMMUNITY, TO MAINTAIN THE GUILDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ("THE ORCHESTRA") FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC AND WORKS AND THE GIVING OF PUBLIC CONCERTS OF SUCH MUSIC AND WORKS.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Alan John Thorpe since 2024
- Abigail Claire Fairhurst since 2020
- Andrew John Turner since 2024
- Felicity Merryl Howgate since 2020
- Katherine Atkinson since 2011
- Sarah Winterbotham since 2024
- Timothy Charles Johnson since 2012
Trustees past 6 years
- Katherine Atkinson since 2011
- Timothy Charles Johnson since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Abigail Claire Fairhurst since 2020
- Andrew John Turner since 2024
- Felicity Merryl Howgate since 2020
- Katherine Atkinson since 2011
- Sarah Winterbotham since 2024
- Timothy Charles Johnson since 2012
Portfolio (1)
- Alan John Thorpe since 2024
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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 803751
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 26TH JUNE 1990 as amended on 03 Dec 2024
- Contact on the register
- 07779 789208 · tim.johnson.gso@sky.com
- 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data