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Folkestone Bowls Association Limited
Folkestone Bowls Association Limited is an active UK company (number 00856909), incorporated 1965, with 8 current directors including Peter Foster and Samantha Ann Merrells. Source: Companies House, updated 11th October 2026.
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Who leads it
- Peter FosterDirector · since 2025
- Samantha Ann MerrellsDirector · since 2024
- Leon David KingDirector · since 2022
- Linda Kathleen PrestonDirector · since 2020
- Christine Mary BondDirector · since 2019
- Richard William Peter WoodDirector · since 2009
- David John MerrellsDirector · since 2009
- Colin Gerald ElsonDirector · since 2004
Previous officers 27
- David Joseph Potter 2021-2023 View profile
- Graeme Philip Poole 2019-2021 View profile
- Patricia Ann Develin 2017-2020 View profile
- Richard Anthony Pascoe 2014-2024 View profile
- David Johnson 2006-2015 View profile
- Adrian Phipps 2006-2016 View profile
- Christopher Julian Taylor 2003-2022 View profile
- Elizabeth Thomas 2001-2019 View profile
- Trevor Clifford Llewellyn 2001-2004 View profile
- Thomas Galloway Ferguson 2000-2003 View profile
- Robert James Stammers 1999-2008 View profile
- Roy Anthony Gannaway 1998-2007 View profile
- Audrey Jane Knott 1994-2007 View profile
- John Joseph Smith 2008 View profile
- Raymond William Greenstreet 2000 View profile
- Thomas Joseph Gillett 2004 View profile
- Alfred William Dray 2001 View profile
- John Fitch Ruffle 1994 View profile
- Gordon Raymond Hodges 2001 View profile
- Dennis George Mortimer 1999 View profile
- Daphne Tozer 1994 View profile
- Christopher Laurence Easton 2012 View profile
- Terence Snelling 2002 View profile
- Christopher Robert Sexton 2013-2020 View profile
- John Frank Grist 2005-2013 View profile
- Jeffries Barton 1998-2005 View profile
- Robert Williamson 1998 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- Incorporated
- 16/08/1965
Financials
- Net assets
- £202,801
- Total assets
- £202,801
- Cash
- £195,343
- Employees
- 16
- Turnover
- Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
Filed as Full accounts (audit exempt).
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-04-30. 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.
8 directors on the board
- Peter Foster Director · appointed 2025
- Linda Kathleen Preston Director · appointed 2020
- Richard William Peter Wood Director · appointed 2009
- Leon David King Director · appointed 2022
- Christine Mary Bond Director · appointed 2019
- Colin Gerald Elson Director · appointed 2004
- David John Merrells Director · appointed 2009
- Samantha Ann Merrells Director · appointed 2024
Directors past 6 years
- Richard William Peter Wood Director · appointed 2009
- Christine Mary Bond Director · appointed 2019
- Colin Gerald Elson Director · appointed 2004
- David John Merrells Director · appointed 2009
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (7)
- Peter Foster Director · appointed 2025
- Linda Kathleen Preston Director · appointed 2020
- Leon David King Director · appointed 2022
- Christine Mary Bond Director · appointed 2019
- Colin Gerald Elson Director · appointed 2004
- David John Merrells Director · appointed 2009
- Samantha Ann Merrells Director · appointed 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Richard William Peter Wood Director · appointed 2009
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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving directors could step down together
- No director brings board experience from anywhere else
- Narrow spread of sectors across the board
Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats; a director with board experience elsewhere.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 00856909
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 11th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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