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Racehorse Owners Association Limited(the)

Company 00398604 Active

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11
directors on the board
7.4y median 5.9y
average tenure
30y
longest tenure
5
directors past 6 years
3 vs 6 portfolio
first-time directors
1
also govern a charity
5
left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits

Arts and leisure 7Professional services 6Tech and media 6Business services 3Agriculture 2Hospitality 2Other services 2Finance 1

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Company details

Number00398604
StatusActive
TypePRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated15/09/1945
Address12 FORBURY ROAD, READING, RG1 1SB
Accounts next due31/12/2026
Accounts last made up31/03/2025

Industry (SIC)

94990 - Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c.

Ownership - persons with significant control (1)


Officers (92)

  • Johnston, Mark Steven Director · appointed 2025
  • Abraham, Daniel Director · appointed 2025
  • Norman, Louise Anne Director · appointed 2024
  • Appelbee, Stephen Charles Director · appointed 2023
  • Walker, James, Dr Director · appointed 2023
  • Kelleway, Gay Director · appointed 2020
  • Goff, Robert Thomas Director · appointed 2019
  • Hoskins, Richard Sam Director · appointed 2017
  • Wright, Christopher Norman Director · appointed 2016
  • Parker, Charles Michael Director · appointed 2015
  • Savill, Peter David Director · appointed 1996
  • Walker, Charles Christopher Former Director · appointed 2022 · resigned 2023
  • Albon, Mark Leonard Former Director · appointed 2022 · resigned 2024
  • Davies, Philip Andrew, Sir Former Director · appointed 2021 · resigned 2025
  • Hamilton-Fairley, Amanda Jane Former Director · appointed 2021 · resigned 2025
  • Mcgarrity, John Kenneth Former Director · appointed 2021 · resigned 2024
  • Almudhaf, Khalid Former Director · appointed 2021 · resigned 2025
  • Djivanovic, Celia Jane Former Director · appointed 2018 · resigned 2025
  • Spence, Alan David Former Director · appointed 2017 · resigned 2026
  • Pugh, Patricia Former Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2019
  • Dixon, Yvette Former Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2022
  • Astaire, Steven Former Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2022
  • Douglas, Lynn Former Director · appointed 2015 · resigned 2018
  • Cooper, Nicholas George Former Director · appointed 2015 · resigned 2020
  • Liverton, Charles Oliver Anthony Former Director · appointed 2014 · resigned 2024
  • Bethell, Sally Former Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2020
  • Wayman, Richard Former Secretary · appointed 2012 · resigned 2015
  • Duffy, David Paul Former Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2020
  • Bailey, Sheila Mary Former Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2015
  • Duff-Gordon, William Andrew Lewis Former Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2015
  • Pickering CBE, Alan Michael Former Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2019
  • Birley, Lucy Former Director · appointed 2010 · resigned 2012
  • Gredley, William Jerome Former Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2011
  • Wadham, Justin John Wyndham Former Director · appointed 2008 · resigned 2018
  • Freedman, Lucinda Jane Former Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2011
  • Stafford, James Alexander Bethune Former Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2011
  • Voute, Edward John Antony Former Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2011
  • Gompertz, Jeremy Former Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2015
  • Smith, Hector Stephen Former Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2018
  • Molloy, Stephen William Former Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2009
  • Balding, Ian Anthony Former Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2011
  • Zetter, Carolyn Jane Former Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2007
  • Silk, David Baxter, Professor Former Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2017
  • Arstall, Dena Juliet Former Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2013
  • Hirschfeld, Anthony Gustav Former Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2016
  • Rowley Williams, Sally Former Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2012
  • Guthrie, Alan Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2015
  • Dixon, Paul Joseph Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2016
  • Menzies, Janet Helen Former Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2006
  • Hopper, Janine Paula Former Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2005
  • Carrington, John Plowden, Executors of Former Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2005
  • Ward, George Henry Reginald Former Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2005
  • Neill, Terence James Former Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2006
  • Whitten, Patrick Former Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2007
  • Hood, Rachel Dene Serena Former Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2016
  • DE LA Warr, William Herbrand, Earl Former Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2003
  • Deal, Peter Alexander Former Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2007
  • Deuters, Christopher Frederick Former Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2006
  • Harris, Michael Keith John Former Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2012
  • Crown, Stephen Maurice Former Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2007
  • Huggins, Ronald Wallace Former Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 2001
  • Gosden, John Harry Martin Former Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1999
  • Furlong, James Richard Former Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 2006
  • Pratt, Adrian John Charles Former Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1999
  • Brasher, Christopher William Former Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 2003
  • Paxman, John Michael Anthony Former Secretary · appointed 1995 · resigned 1998
  • Balding, Gerald Barnard Former Director · appointed 1995 · resigned 2011
  • Winfield, Peter Stevens Former Director · appointed 1995 · resigned 2000
  • Davies, Melvyn John Former Director · appointed 1994 · resigned 2003
  • Parker, Eric Wilson, Sir Former Director · appointed 1994 · resigned 2014
  • Cundell, Peter David Former Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 2013
  • Howard-Spink, Geoffrey Former Director · appointed 1992 · resigned 1996
  • Spencer Phillips, Christopher Tyrell Former Director · appointed 1991 · resigned 2007
  • Burnham, Hilary Margaret Former Director · resigned 1998
  • Johnson, George Alfred Former Director · resigned 1995
  • Locke, Paul Henry Former Director · resigned 2000
  • Beale, Frank Maurice, Lieutenant Colonel Former Director · resigned 1993
  • Jones, Peter Ivan Former Director · resigned 1997
  • Mccalmont, Hugh Dermot Former Director · resigned 1996
  • Arnold, Michael John Former Director · resigned 2000
  • Abbott, Susan Jennifer Former Director · resigned 1996
  • Payne, Nigel Lindsay Former Director · resigned 1993
  • Clark, Nigel Culliford Former Director · resigned 1994
  • Urquhart, John Ronald Former Director · resigned 1993
  • Gibbons, Robert Frank Former Director · resigned 1996
  • Baerlein, Richard Former Director · resigned 1992
  • Grazebrook, Adrian Michael Former Director · resigned 2002
  • Biggs, John Stanley Former Secretary · resigned 1995
  • Brook, Sandra Rosemary Former Director · resigned 1997
  • Villar, Anthony Sidney Rex Former Director · resigned 1999
  • Sieff, David Daniel, the Honourable Sir Former Director · resigned 1994
  • Robinson, Nicholas John Foster Former Director · resigned 2002

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