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The British United Provident Association Limited

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

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Previous officers 61

  1. Clare Jane Bousfield 2024-2025 Director View profile
  2. Sally Jane Clark 2022-2025 Director View profile
  3. Pia Johanna Heidenmark Cook 2022-2025 Director View profile
  4. Gunjan Dhanesh Bhow 2022-2024 Director View profile
  5. Martin Potkins 2021-2021 Director View profile
  6. Professor Melvin Samsom 2019-2025 Director View profile
  7. Matias Rodriguez Inciarte 2019-2026 Director View profile
  8. Nicholas Stephen Leland Lyons 2018-2021 Director View profile
  9. Caroline Louise Silver 2017-2023 Director View profile
  10. Joy Linton 2016-2021 Director View profile
  11. Janet Joslin Voute-Allen 2016-2021 Director View profile
  12. Roger William John Davis 2015-2025 Director View profile
  13. Clare Eleanor Thompson 2015-2022 Director View profile
  14. Martin Joseph Houston 2014-2019 Director View profile
  15. Hewitt, Patricia Hope, Mp 2013-2014 Director View profile
  16. Evelyn Brigid Bourke 2012-2020 Director View profile
  17. Stuart Robert Fletcher 2012-2016 Director View profile
  18. John Howard Lorimer 2011-2015 Director View profile
  19. Rita Ann Clifton 2010-2016 Director View profile
  20. Lawrence Churchill 2009-2018 Director View profile
  21. Professor John Edward Tooke 2009-2019 Director View profile
  22. Thomas Daniel Singer 2008-2011 Director View profile
  23. Professor Edward Byrne 2008-2009 Director View profile
  24. Peter Edward Blackburn Cawdron 2007-2014 Director View profile
  25. Baroness Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley 2007-2013 Director View profile
  26. George Edward Mitchell 2007-2015 Director View profile
  27. Alexander Park Leitch 2005-2018 Director View profile
  28. Robert Philippe Walther 2004-2009 Director View profile
  29. Orna Gabrielle Ni-Chionna 2003-2008 Director View profile
  30. Ray King 2001-2012 Director View profile
  31. Gregory Allison Clarke 2001-2007 Director View profile
  32. Roy Drysdale Brown 2001-2007 Director View profile
  33. Bryan Kaye Sanderson 2001-2006 Director View profile
  34. Professor Oliver Francis Wintour James 1999-2008 Director View profile
  35. Arthur David Walford 1998-2005 Director View profile
  36. Frances Anne Heaton 1998-2001 Director View profile
  37. Douglas Martin Claisse 1998-2003 Director View profile
  38. Valerie Frances Gooding 1996-2008 Director View profile
  39. Dr Leonard Paul Harvey 1995-1998 Director View profile
  40. Dr Margaret Downes 1995-2001 Director View profile
  41. Sir Duncan Kirkbride Nichol 1994-2002 Director View profile
  42. John Kenneth Elbourne 1994-1997 Director View profile
  43. Roger Frederick Hymas 1994-1998 Director View profile
  44. David Spencer Boyle 1993-2002 Director View profile
  45. Peter Laister 1993 Director View profile
  46. Norman Lessels 1994 Director View profile
  47. Arthur Robert Witherow Large 1994 Director View profile
  48. Dr Edward Brian Lewis 1995 Director View profile
  49. Dr Hugh Thelwall-Jones 1996 Director View profile
  50. Edward William Lea 2001 Director View profile
  51. Sir Bryan Hubert Nicholson 2001 Director View profile
  52. David Shaw 1993 Director View profile
  53. Bryan Stanley Hawkins 1993 Director View profile
  54. Sir David Arnold Stuart Plastow 1995 Director View profile
  55. Susan Caroline Ellen 1995 Director View profile
  56. Ralph Nicholas Quartano 1998 Director View profile
  57. Peter Alan Jacobs 1999 Director View profile
  58. John Mark Alexander Viscount Colville of Culross 1993 Director View profile
  59. Julian Philip Sanders 2014-2019 Secretary View profile
  60. Alan Kerr Buchanan 2013-2014 Secretary View profile
  61. Nicholas Tetley Beazley 2005-2013 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Activities of financial services holding companies; Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.; Activities of head offices; Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Incorporated
03/04/1947
Registered office
London
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.

11 directors on the board

3.3y median 2.5y
average tenure
7.7y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (4)

Portfolio (7)

0
also govern a charity

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.

Finance 12Business services 5Professional services 5Tech and media 3Manufacturing 2Arts and leisure 1Construction 1Dormant 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
00432511
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
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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