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The Advertising Association

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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 72

  1. Annette King 2022-2025 Director View profile
  2. Matthew John Payton 2022-2025 Director View profile
  3. Sajeeda Merali 2021-2025 Director View profile
  4. Ian Moss 2021-2022 Director View profile
  5. Karen Jane Buchanan 2020-2023 Director View profile
  6. Jonathan Mark Allan 2020-2025 Director View profile
  7. Philippa Anne Brown 2019-2022 Director View profile
  8. Sebastian John Munden 2018-2022 Director View profile
  9. Lynne Anderson 2018-2021 Director View profile
  10. Ronan Aubyn Harris 2017-2022 Director View profile
  11. Philip Anthony Raby Smith 2017-2025 Director View profile
  12. Sajad Manzoor 2016-2021 Director View profile
  13. Kathryn Margaret Jacob 2016-2025 Director View profile
  14. Eileen Naughton 2016-2017 Director View profile
  15. Alan Robert Brydon 2015-2017 Director View profile
  16. James Benedict Patrick Murphy 2015-2019 Director View profile
  17. Edward Kelly Williams 2015-2020 Director View profile
  18. Siobhan Kenny 2014-2021 Director View profile
  19. Susan Bjorg Garrard 2014-2018 Director View profile
  20. Michael Baker-Munton 2013-2014 Director View profile
  21. Andrew John Harrison 2013-2013 Director View profile
  22. Christopher Porte Combemale 2013-2025 Director View profile
  23. David Richard Newell 2013-2018 Director View profile
  24. Guy Brian Phillipson 2013-2017 Director View profile
  25. Barry Wilson Mcilheney 2013-2018 Director View profile
  26. Colin Fleming 2013-2016 Director View profile
  27. Priscilla Deborah Snowball 2012-2015 Director View profile
  28. Anne Frances Hazlitt 2011-2014 Director View profile
  29. Paul Jeffrey Bainsfair 2011-2026 Director View profile
  30. Gavin Echlin Patterson 2011-2014 Director View profile
  31. Andrew Peter Mcguinness 2011-2012 Director View profile
  32. Judith Amanda Sourry Knox 2011-2014 Director View profile
  33. Timothy Patterson Lefroy 2009-2017 Director View profile
  34. Rupert Cortlandt Spencer Howell 2007-2012 Director View profile
  35. Michael John Hughes 2007-2017 Director View profile
  36. David John Lewis 2007-2011 Director View profile
  37. Baroness Peta Jane Buscombe 2007-2009 Director View profile
  38. Lund, OBE, Mark 2006-2009 Director View profile
  39. Ian Douglas Mcculloch 2005-2007 Director View profile
  40. Kevin John Havelock 2005-2007 Director View profile
  41. Penelope Lesley Hughes 2005-2011 Director View profile
  42. Graham Douglas Duff 2004-2005 Director View profile
  43. James Christopher Bardsley Whitworth 2003-2012 Director View profile
  44. David Andrew Kershaw 2002-2006 Director View profile
  45. Hamish Patrick Pringle 2001-2011 Director View profile
  46. Malcolm Terry Earnshaw 2000-2007 Director View profile
  47. Niall William Arthur Fitzgerald 2000-2005 Director View profile
  48. Keith Charles Frederick Weed 1999-2005 Director View profile
  49. James Leigh Stuart Best 1997-2002 Director View profile
  50. Sir George Jeffrey Bull 1996-2000 Director View profile
  51. John Hooper 1995-2000 Director View profile
  52. Sir Michael Sydney Perry 1993-1996 Director View profile
  53. Andrew William Brown 1993-2007 Director View profile
  54. John Francis Bell 1993-1993 Director View profile
  55. Winston Fletcher 1993-1997 Director View profile
  56. Nigel Norman Walmsley 1992-2003 Director View profile
  57. Frank Anthony Cokayne 1991 Director View profile
  58. Brian West 1995 Director View profile
  59. Jonathan Fraser Shier 1991 Director View profile
  60. Harry Edward Turner 1992 Director View profile
  61. David Harvey-Taylor 1991 Director View profile
  62. Nicolas Hood Phillips 2001 Director View profile
  63. William Bramwell Griffin 2003 Director View profile
  64. Kenneth Norman Miles 1994 Director View profile
  65. William Guy Walker 1998 Director View profile
  66. Michael Hockney 1994 Director View profile
  67. Martin Boase 1992 Director View profile
  68. Sir Matthew Alistair Grant 1993 Director View profile
  69. Susan Eustace 2017-2022 Secretary View profile
  70. Ian Michael Barber 2015-2017 Secretary View profile
  71. Catherine Jane Hitchcock 2007-2015 Secretary View profile
  72. Deborah Louise Harper 2007 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Activities of professional membership organizations
Incorporated
06/02/1926
Registered office
London

Group

No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above The Advertising Association on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.

2 other companies 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.

Financials

Net assets
£658,188
Total assets
£708,188
Cash
£204,071
Employees
27
Turnover
£1,835,032
Profit/loss
£8,221

Five-year trend

Period endingTurnoverNet assets
2025-12-31£1,835,032£658,188
2025-12-31£1,835,032£658,188

Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-12-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.

Grants received

5 grants · £439,465 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

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £439,465 (5 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £87,8932019-09-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £87,8932019-09-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £87,8932019-09-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £87,8932019-09-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £87,8932019-09-20
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.

7 directors on the board

4.3y median 4.7y
average tenure
9.7y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

Portfolio (7)

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.

Professional services 14Other services 13Arts and leisure 4Tech and media 2Dormant 1Education 1Finance 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Company number
00211587
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Accounts next due
30/09/2027
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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