Company
The English Bridge Union Limited
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Kathryn CearnsDirector · since 2026
- Frances HindenDirector · since 2025
- David William GuildDirector · since 2025
- Michael Bernard HornungDirector · since 2024
- Deborah Janet SandfordDirector · since 2024
- Diana Mary NettletonDirector · since 2024
- Ian SidgwickDirector · since 2023
- Paul GibbonsDirector · since 2023
- Professor Adrian Charles DarnellDirector · since 2020
- Gordon RainsfordSecretary · since 2017
Previous officers 56
- Abbey Smith 2022-2025 View profile
- Anthony Russ 2021-2024 View profile
- Cathryn Ann Fox 2021-2022 View profile
- Karen Elizabeth Preddy 2021-2024 View profile
- Elizabeth Gay Webb 2021-2024 View profile
- Kiat Huang 2020-2021 View profile
- Patrick Joseph Shields 2020-2025 View profile
- Beverley Jane Myers 2019-2021 View profile
- Gillian Fawcett 2018-2021 View profile
- Beverley Godfrey 2018-2018 View profile
- Graham Geofrey Smith 2016-2020 View profile
- Anthony Charles Golding 2014-2021 View profile
- Dr Robert Sass Alan Lawy 2014-2023 View profile
- Darren Roy Evetts 2013-2017 View profile
- Ronald Frank Millet 2012-2022 View profile
- Jeremy Ewart Cope 2011-2021 View profile
- Judith Valerie Gibson 2011-2013 View profile
- Ian David Payn 2011-2023 View profile
- Heather Julie Dhondy 2010-2019 View profile
- Suzanne Diana Gill 2010-2011 View profile
- Jeremy Dhondy 2009-2019 View profile
- Dr John Andrew Hamlyn Petrie 2008-2015 View profile
- Malcolm Graham Oliver 2007-2014 View profile
- Michael Robert David Hill 2006-2013 View profile
- Peter Alfred Creswick Stocken 2006-2009 View profile
- Douglas Martin Pool 2005-2010 View profile
- Graham William Jepson 2005-2012 View profile
- Alan Nelson 2004-2010 View profile
- Sally Bugden 2004-2014 View profile
- Chris Dixon 2004-2005 View profile
- John Mervyn Carter 2003-2010 View profile
- Roger Chapman Amey 2002-2003 View profile
- Jeffrey Kelvin Morris 2002-2010 View profile
- Michael Ingham 2000-2001 View profile
- Alaine Mary Constance Hamilton 1999-2004 View profile
- David Glenn Martin 1998-2004 View profile
- John David Neville 1997-2007 View profile
- John Bernard Eastham Faulkner 1997-2002 View profile
- Denis Anthony Robson 1996-2006 View profile
- Philip Gonville Mason 1996-2008 View profile
- Brenda Dawn Osborne 1994-1997 View profile
- David Robert Harris 1993-2006 View profile
- David Melvyn Boston 1992-1996 View profile
- Kathleen Alexandra Penfold 1998 View profile
- Raymond Slater Brock 1992 View profile
- Henry Palmer Bayer 1992 View profile
- Grattan Endicott 1993 View profile
- Margaret Anne Valerie Curtis 2000 View profile
- Sandra Landy 1997 View profile
- Thomas John Bradley 2005 View profile
- Barry Capal 2006-2017 View profile
- Brian Smith 2006-2006 View profile
- Terence George Collier 2001-2006 View profile
- John Richard Tudor Williams 2001-2001 View profile
- Philip Thomas Lloyd 1998-2001 View profile
- John Richard Tudor Williams 1998 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- Incorporated
- 03/01/1940
Ownership
Owned by (3) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- Adrian Charles Darnell
significant influence · notified 2023-09-06 - Jeremy Dhondy ceased 2019-11-27
significant influence · notified 2016-10-17 - Ian David Payn ceased 2023-09-05
significant influence · notified 2019-11-27
Group
- The English Bridge Union Limited
is controlled by Adrian Charles Darnell
Evidence
active significant influence · notified 2023-09-06 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Adrian Charles Darnell.
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
- £959,424
- Total assets
- £959,424
- Cash
- £155,380
- Employees
- 17
- Turnover
- £1,441,719
- Profit/loss
- £56,888
Filed as Full accounts (audit exempt).
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-03-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.
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.
9 directors on the board
- Ian Sidgwick Director · appointed 2023
- Paul Gibbons Director · appointed 2023
- Michael Bernard Hornung Director · appointed 2024
- David William Guild Director · appointed 2025
- Frances Hinden Director · appointed 2025
- Kathryn Cearns Director · appointed 2026
- Deborah Janet Sandford Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Adrian Charles Darnell Director · appointed 2020
- Diana Mary Nettleton Director · appointed 2024
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (6)
- Ian Sidgwick Director · appointed 2023
- Paul Gibbons Director · appointed 2023
- David William Guild Director · appointed 2025
- Frances Hinden Director · appointed 2025
- Deborah Janet Sandford Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Adrian Charles Darnell Director · appointed 2020
Portfolio (3)
- Michael Bernard Hornung Director · appointed 2024
- Kathryn Cearns Director · appointed 2026
- Diana Mary Nettleton Director · appointed 2024
Also govern a charity
Left in the last 12 months
- Patrick Joseph Shields Director · appointed 2020 · resigned 2025
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.
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
- 00358588
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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