Company · Gloucester
Benefact Trust Limited
Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Robert David Charles HendersonDirector · since 2026
- Brown, Sarah Romilly Denner, Revd CanonDirector · since 2025
- Denise Patricia CockremDirector · since 2024
- Caroline Kauslick CoombsDirector · since 2024
- Patrick RuddenDirector · since 2023
- Dr Ian Keith MooreDirector · since 2023
- John Nicholas SykesDirector · since 2023
- David Scott PatersonDirector · since 2022
- Reverend Paul Harold DavisDirector · since 2020
- Sir Stephen Mark Jeffrey LamportDirector · since 2020
- Rachael Jane HallSecretary · since 1995
Previous officers 33
- Francois-Xavier Bernard Boisseau 2023-2025 View profile
- David Eynon Smart 2021-2023 View profile
- David Storry Walton 2019-2019 View profile
- Mr Chris Moulder 2019-2023 View profile
- Best, Karen Belinda, Venerable 2018-2024 View profile
- Caroline Janet Banszky 2018-2024 View profile
- Very Revd Jane Barbara Hedges 2017-2023 View profile
- Timothy Joseph Carroll 2016-2025 View profile
- Stephen Charles Hudson 2016-2023 View profile
- Michael Arlington 2014-2022 View profile
- Sir Laurence Henry Philip Magnus 2013-2022 View profile
- David Christie 2013-2016 View profile
- Denise Pamela Wilson 2010-2018 View profile
- Sir Philip John Courtney Mawer 2010-2019 View profile
- Christopher Smith 2010-2018 View profile
- William Meredith Samuel 2009-2013 View profile
- Cooper, Annette Joy, the Venerable 2008-2018 View profile
- Rt Revd William Nigel Stock 2006-2016 View profile
- Michael Aubrey Chamberlain 2006-2016 View profile
- Nicholas John Elliot Sealy 2006-2013 View profile
- Howell Meirion Harris Hughes 2004-2006 View profile
- Harold Fraser Hart 2004-2014 View profile
- Hon Nicholas Assheton 2002-2007 View profile
- Susan Barbara Stanhope Homersham 1998-2003 View profile
- Bernard Victor Day 1998-2004 View profile
- William Hugh Yates 1997-2011 View profile
- Spencer, Victor George, Viscount Churchill 1994-2006 View profile
- Very Reverend Thomas Eric Evans 1996 View profile
- Rt Rev Donald George Snelgrove 2005 View profile
- Sir Charles Alan Mclintock 2003 View profile
- Mark Ralph Cornwall-Jones 2009 View profile
- Roger Ward Clayton 1995-2002 View profile
- John Edwin Williscroft 1995 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Other business support service activities n.e.c.
- Incorporated
- 24/02/1972
- Registered office
- Gloucester
- Also a registered charity
- Benefact Trust Limited
- Previous names
- Allchurches Trust Limited (until 07/03/2022)
Group
No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above Benefact Trust Limited on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.
14 other companies in this group
- 03142714
- Benefact Management Services Limited
- Benefact Group PLC
- Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Public Limited Company
- Edentree Asset Management Limited
- Lycett, Browne-Swinburne & Douglass Limited
- Ecclesiastical Planning Services Limited
- Edentree Holdings Limited
- Lycetts Risk Management Services Limited
- Lycetts Holdings Limited
- Benefact Broking & Advisory Holdings Limited
- Ecclesiastical Financial Advisory Services Limited
- Edentree Investment Management Limited
- Ecclesiastical Underwriting Management Limited
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.
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.
10 directors on the board
- David Scott Paterson Director · appointed 2022
- Denise Patricia Cockrem Director · appointed 2024
- Brown, Sarah Romilly Denner, Revd Canon Director · appointed 2025
- Robert David Charles Henderson Director · appointed 2026
- Caroline Kauslick Coombs Director · appointed 2024
- Patrick Rudden Director · appointed 2023
- Sir Stephen Mark Jeffrey Lamport Director · appointed 2020
- Reverend Paul Harold Davis Director · appointed 2020
- Dr Ian Keith Moore Director · appointed 2023
- John Nicholas Sykes Director · appointed 2023
Directors past 6 years
- Sir Stephen Mark Jeffrey Lamport Director · appointed 2020
- Reverend Paul Harold Davis Director · appointed 2020
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (2)
- Caroline Kauslick Coombs Director · appointed 2024
- Reverend Paul Harold Davis Director · appointed 2020
Portfolio (8)
- David Scott Paterson Director · appointed 2022
- Denise Patricia Cockrem Director · appointed 2024
- Brown, Sarah Romilly Denner, Revd Canon Director · appointed 2025
- Robert David Charles Henderson Director · appointed 2026
- Patrick Rudden Director · appointed 2023
- Sir Stephen Mark Jeffrey Lamport Director · appointed 2020
- Dr Ian Keith Moore Director · appointed 2023
- John Nicholas Sykes Director · appointed 2023
Also govern a charity
- David Scott Paterson The Fairtrade Foundation
- Brown, Sarah Romilly Denner, Revd Canon The Hereford Cathedral Almshouses Charity, REV Roland Muckleston, The Hereford Diocesan Board of Finance, The Hereford Cathedral Perpetual Trust, The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Ethelbert in Hereford
- Patrick Rudden Wrexham Methodist Circuit
- Sir Stephen Mark Jeffrey Lamport Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Management Limited, Painshill Park Trust Limited
- John Nicholas Sykes The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of ST Mary, Islington
Left in the last 12 months
- Timothy Joseph Carroll Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2025
- Francois-Xavier Bernard Boisseau Director · appointed 2023 · 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
- 01043742
- 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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