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The Rochester Diocesan Society and Board of Finance

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Previous officers 153

  1. Barnes, Katrina Crawford, the Venerable 2022-2023 Director View profile
  2. Sharon Louise Copestake 2022-2024 Director View profile
  3. Jeremy James King 2022-2024 Director View profile
  4. Revd Martyn Leonard John Saunders 2019-2024 Director View profile
  5. Nigel Howard Pope 2019-2024 Director View profile
  6. Gerald Michael O'Brien 2019-2024 Director View profile
  7. Alan Keith Strachan 2019-2024 Director View profile
  8. Rev Dr Julie Elizabeth Bowen 2019-2024 Director View profile
  9. Andrew David Wooding Jones 2018-2024 Director View profile
  10. Conalty, Julie Anne, the Ven 2017-2021 Director View profile
  11. Dr Jeffrey Vincent Blyth 2017-2018 Director View profile
  12. Judith Jane Armitt 2016-2019 Director View profile
  13. Rev James Patrick Colwill 2016-2018 Director View profile
  14. Rev Dylan Lawrence Turner 2016-2019 Director View profile
  15. Rev Mark Barker 2016-2024 Director View profile
  16. Lela Valerie Filmer Weavers 2013-2018 Director View profile
  17. Christine Mary Bostock 2013-2021 Director View profile
  18. Philip Colin French 2012-2024 Director View profile
  19. Very Reverend Dr Mark Howard Beach 2012-2015 Director View profile
  20. Rt Revd James Henry Langstaff 2010-2021 Director View profile
  21. Rev Douglas Peter Wren 2010-2015 Director View profile
  22. Rev Alyson Elizabeth Davie 2010-2021 Director View profile
  23. Christopher Huish Gallico 2010-2021 Director View profile
  24. Gordon Andrew Hunt 2008-2018 Director View profile
  25. Owen Smith 2008-2013 Director View profile
  26. Christopher Cholmondeley Thornton 2008-2011 Director View profile
  27. Perumbalath, John, Rev'D Dr 2007-2013 Director View profile
  28. James Reginald Cheeseman 2007-2009 Director View profile
  29. Richard James Latteman 2007-2013 Director View profile
  30. Rev James Patrick Stewart 2007-2014 Director View profile
  31. Peter John Ridgeley Masson 2007-2009 Director View profile
  32. Reverend Paul Turner Kerr 2007-2009 Director View profile
  33. Sonia Blandford 2007-2007 Director View profile
  34. Angela Valerie Pain 2006-2006 Director View profile
  35. Very Reverend Adrian Newman 2005-2011 Director View profile
  36. Russell James Stagg 2004-2006 Director View profile
  37. Derek Martin Shilling 2004-2009 Director View profile
  38. Rev Simon Christopher Tillotson 2004-2006 Director View profile
  39. Robert Mark Radcliffe 2004-2005 Director View profile
  40. Reverend Ruth Oates 2004-2013 Director View profile
  41. Geoffrey Charles Dalby 2004-2013 Director View profile
  42. Vousden, Alan Thomas, the Rev Canon 2004-2009 Director View profile
  43. Dr Paul Wright 2003-2022 Director View profile
  44. Meyrick, Cyril Jonathan, the Revd Canon 2003-2005 Director View profile
  45. Mansell, Clive Neville Ross, the Venerable 2002-2017 Director View profile
  46. Miller, Paul, Rev Canon 2002-2003 Director View profile
  47. Rt Revd Brian Colin Castle 2002-2015 Director View profile
  48. Graeme Crockatt King 2001-2012 Director View profile
  49. Wendy Jayne Brian 2001-2003 Director View profile
  50. David John Gater 2001-2008 Director View profile
  51. Kerr, Nicholas Ian, Rev Canon 2001-2006 Director View profile
  52. Tipp, James Edward, Rev Canon 2001-2006 Director View profile
  53. Warren, Yvonne, Doctor 2001-2006 Director View profile
  54. Rev Irene Shaw 2001-2002 Director View profile
  55. Jennifer Ann Dunlop 2001-2009 Director View profile
  56. Rev Peter Andrew Bird 1999-2000 Director View profile
  57. Redman, Douglas Stuart Raymond, the Reverend Canon 1999-2003 Director View profile
  58. Lock, Peter Harcourt D'Arcy, the Ven 1999-2009 Director View profile
  59. Alan Raymond Brown 1999-2000 Director View profile
  60. Frederick William Price 1999-2000 Director View profile
  61. Shirley Millicent Barter 1999-2000 Director View profile
  62. Collins, Christopher David, the Reverend Canon 1999-2008 Director View profile
  63. Reverend David Alexander Sellars Herbert 1999-2006 Director View profile
  64. Ian Myers 1999-2006 Director View profile
  65. Angela Mary Scott 1999-2015 Director View profile
  66. Very Reverend Edward Frank Shotter 1999-2003 Director View profile
  67. Hodge, Michael Robert, Canon 1999-1999 Director View profile
  68. Reverend David Geoffrey Willey 1999-2000 Director View profile
  69. Ernest George Mann 1999-2009 Director View profile
  70. Rev Stephen Peter Davie 1998-1998 Director View profile
  71. Reverend Jeffery Thomas Gunn 1998-1999 Director View profile
  72. Anthony Charles Oehring 1997-1998 Director View profile
  73. Anthony Edward Burlace 1997-1998 Director View profile
  74. Reverend Glyn James Ackerley 1997-1998 Director View profile
  75. John Arthur Edward Passmore 1997-1998 Director View profile
  76. Philip Edward Hustwitt 1997-1998 Director View profile
  77. Rev David Carpenter Francis 1997-1998 Director View profile
  78. Carpenter, Derek George Edwin, the Rev Canon 1997-1998 Director View profile
  79. Reverend Paul Jonathan Plumley 1996-1997 Director View profile
  80. Rose, Kathleen Judith, the Venerable 1995-2002 Director View profile
  81. Reverend Paul Miller 1995-1998 Director View profile
  82. Rev Linda Mary Lane 1995-1995 Director View profile
  83. Raymond James Miller 1995-1998 Director View profile
  84. Bryan Rushen 1995-1998 Director View profile
  85. Leonard Smith 1995-1997 Director View profile
  86. Reverend Michael Lewis Jeffries 1995-1997 Director View profile
  87. Rev John Arthur Peal 1995-1998 Director View profile
  88. Rev David Frederick Springthorpe 1995-1997 Director View profile
  89. Reverend Noel Christopher Beattie 1995-2002 Director View profile
  90. Ronald Leslie Tomlin 1995-1998 Director View profile
  91. John Allen Kirby 1995-1998 Director View profile
  92. Olga Mary Garner 1995-2003 Director View profile
  93. Nazir-ALI, Michael James, Monsignor 1994-2009 Director View profile
  94. Norman, Garth, the Venerable 1994-2003 Director View profile
  95. Rev Joseph Stephen King 1994-1998 Director View profile
  96. Reverend Martin John Henwood 1994-1998 Director View profile
  97. Right Reverend Brian Arthur Smith 1993-2001 Director View profile
  98. Raymond William Hudson 1992-1997 Director View profile
  99. Rev Michael Hugh Crawford Lumgair 1992-1994 Director View profile
  100. Reverend John Graham Clive Lawrence 1997 Director View profile
  101. Margaret Jane Mears 1998 Director View profile
  102. Denis Back 1998 Director View profile
  103. John Theodore Newton 1997 Director View profile
  104. Edwin Dawson Fox 1991 Director View profile
  105. Stevenson, Robert Brian, Canon 2003 Director View profile
  106. Rev June Barbara Hurn 1998 Director View profile
  107. Charles Frederick Rowe 1994 Director View profile
  108. Reverend Bernard Richard Ingram 1998 Director View profile
  109. Hartley, John Peter, the Reverand Doctor 1991 Director View profile
  110. Reverend Henry Anthony Atherton 1991 Director View profile
  111. David Alfred Irvin Seargeant 1991 Director View profile
  112. Rev George Brash Mccormack 1997 Director View profile
  113. Howard Blandford-Baker 1994 Director View profile
  114. Reverend John Banner 1998 Director View profile
  115. Sidebotham, Stephen Francis, Canon 1994 Director View profile
  116. Rodney Oliver Kinsey Turvey 1997 Director View profile
  117. Pansy Marion Bagshaw 1994 Director View profile
  118. Ian Wyness Fawkner 2001 Director View profile
  119. Right Reverend Anthony Michael Arnold Turnbull 1994 Director View profile
  120. Ernest Walter Gray 1996 Director View profile
  121. Laurence Ernest Oconnell 1991 Director View profile
  122. Reverend Alan Ralph Oakden Morris 1991 Director View profile
  123. Right Reverend David Bartleet 1993 Director View profile
  124. Mason, Richard John, the Ven 1995 Director View profile
  125. Barry James Mason 1991 Director View profile
  126. Richard Harvey Carter 1993 Director View profile
  127. Jack Harding 1994 Director View profile
  128. Kathryn Davies 1994 Director View profile
  129. Melhuish, Leonard John, Major 1991 Director View profile
  130. Reverend David Leslie Williams 1991 Director View profile
  131. Robin Long 1993 Director View profile
  132. Peter Richard Money 1994 Director View profile
  133. Francis, Edward Reginald, the Ven 1994 Director View profile
  134. Timothy Nicholas Nunns 1998 Director View profile
  135. Reverend Christopher John Reed 1991 Director View profile
  136. Oconnor, Brian Michael Mcdougall, Canon 1997 Director View profile
  137. Warren, Norman Leonard, the Venerable 2000 Director View profile
  138. Graeme Jolly 1992 Director View profile
  139. Ernest Charles Bissenden 1994 Director View profile
  140. Colin Stuart Moore 1994 Director View profile
  141. Reverend Michael Penton Shields 1991 Director View profile
  142. Philip George Fricker 1991 Director View profile
  143. Reverend Brian John Ash 1997 Director View profile
  144. Reverend Francis Edward John Willoughby 1994 Director View profile
  145. Colin Potter Williamson 1991 Director View profile
  146. Simmons, Brian Dudley, Canon 1998 Director View profile
  147. David Ernest Spencer Webster 2012 Director View profile
  148. Winter, Dennis Graham St Leger, the Reverend Canon 1998 Director View profile
  149. Reverend Mark Gregory Kichenside 1993 Director View profile
  150. Rev Leonard Charles Stapleton 1994 Director View profile
  151. Geoffrey Richard Marsh 2013-2019 Secretary View profile
  152. Louise Anne Gilbert 2000-2013 Secretary View profile
  153. Peter Graham Henry Law 1992-2000 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

Incorporated
14/06/1915
Also a registered charity
The Rochester Diocesan Society and Board of Finance

Group

No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above The Rochester Diocesan Society and Board of Finance on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.

1 other company in this group

Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.

Grants received

5 grants · £2,904,252 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,879,252 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £25,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £2,611,2522022-09-06
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £18,7502020-11-30
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £6,2502020-11-30
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £151,2002015-03-12
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £116,8002014-09-19
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

15 directors on the board

4.6y median 2y
average tenure
16.5y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (11)

Portfolio (4)

0
left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Education 1Hospitality 1Property 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Gaps to watch

  • No director brings board experience from anywhere else
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: a director with board experience elsewhere; directors from a wider range of sectors.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00140656
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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