Voluntary and Community Action Sunderland

Company 01759477 Active

Registered charity: Voluntary and Community Action Sunderland

Connected board network

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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.

4 directors on the board

Amanda Lowery Director · appointed 2024
Paul Brigham Director · appointed 2023
Kamareswaradas Ramanathas Director · appointed 2017
Stephen Armstrong Director · appointed 2015

6.4y median 6y

average tenure

11.4y

longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

Kamareswaradas Ramanathas Director · appointed 2017
Stephen Armstrong Director · appointed 2015

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (2)

Amanda Lowery Director · appointed 2024
Stephen Armstrong Director · appointed 2015

Portfolio (2)

Paul Brigham Director · appointed 2023
Kamareswaradas Ramanathas Director · appointed 2017

Also govern a charity

Paul Brigham Young Asian Voices

Left in the last 12 months

Rachidy Bikaya Director · appointed 2018 · resigned 2026
Alan Cummings Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2026
Katherine Fay Lowe Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2026

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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more directors with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or group company. Connected through a shared director share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group.

Connected through a shared director

Butler-Curnow Building Surveyors LLP 1 shared director

Deterministic, from public records.

Company details

Number	01759477
Status	Active
Type	PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated	06/10/1983
Address	15 NORFOLK STREET, SUNDERLAND, SR1 1EA
Accounts next due	31/12/2026
Accounts last made up	31/03/2025

Industry (SIC)

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

Ownership - persons with significant control (0)

No persons with significant control recorded.

Officers (83)

Amanda Lowery Director · appointed 2024
Paul Brigham Director · appointed 2023
Kamareswaradas Ramanathas Director · appointed 2017
Stephen Armstrong Director · appointed 2015
Janette Hilton Secretary · appointed 2015

Show 78 former officers

Alan Cummings Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2026
Rachidy Bikaya Director · appointed 2018 · resigned 2026
Karl Stabler Director · appointed 2017 · resigned 2023
Katherine Fay Lowe Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2026
Richard Wood Director · appointed 2012 · resigned 2015
Alan Patchett Director · appointed 2010 · resigned 2010
Watson, Susan, Councillor Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2010
Sarah Ahmadi Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2008
David John Curtis Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2015
Dorothy Gardiner Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2017
Helena Louise Moss Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2006
Keith Adshead Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2012
Patricia Cornish Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2009
John Scott Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2009
Anne Morrison Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2017
Angelo Docherty Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2006
Marion Goodfellow Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2005
Elizabeth Farrelly Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2012
Raymond John Downey Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2004
Geoffrey Michael Wilson Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2006
Constance Mary Bulmer Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2023
Hollern, James, Councillor Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2006
Nora Dorward Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2005
Bryan Henderson Cooper Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2006
Stuart Tindale Miller Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2003
Jillian Gibson Stephenson Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2004
Anne Elaine Staines Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2003
Taylor, MBE, Stephen Ronald, the Venerable Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2005
Gillian Mcdonough Secretary · appointed 2001 · resigned 2019
Lawrence Robson Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2002
Brenda Balmer Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2004
Michael Brunning Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2014
Kevin Rooke Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2003
Jacqueline Dunn Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2002
Thomas Forsyth Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2002
Paul Smith Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2001
Peter Bell Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2000
Jennie Meik Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2000
George Ralph Park Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2002
Stewart Marwood Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2001
James William Price Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2000
Mary Baker Secretary · appointed 1999 · resigned 2001
Julie Anne Marshall Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2002
Margaret Elizabeth Elliott Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2001
Gwynne Page Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2000
Kevin O'Connor Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 2000
Rosemary Renton Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 2002
Philip Soldinger Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 2001
Tony Mitchell Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 2000
Jeremy Paul Stephens Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1999
Elizabeth Clark Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 2004
Graham Antony Brough Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1999
Henry Cable Dagg Purvis Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1997
Michael Moore Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1999
Thomas Mcadams Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1996
Jean Elizabeth Blair Director · appointed 1995 · resigned 1997
Alexander Wilson Ready Director · appointed 1995 · resigned 1995
Ailsa Sibella Martin Director · appointed 1994 · resigned 1997
Antony Philip Everett Director · appointed 1994 · resigned 1997
David Louis Fallon Secretary · appointed 1994 · resigned 1999
Patricia Burn Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 1995
Inel Margaret Preston Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 1998
Kathleen Young Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 1997
Mary Miller Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 1994
Thomas Cumiskey Secretary · appointed 1993 · resigned 1994
Eleanor Donnison Director · resigned 1998
Harry Zion Director · resigned 1993
Jessie Peacock Baines Director · resigned 1993
Freda Mason Director · resigned 2002
Richard Bernard Huntley Director · resigned 1995
Patricia Lawson Director · resigned 1994
John Billson Director · resigned 1997
Henry Hodgson Christie Director · resigned 1993
Jillian Gibson-Stevenson Director · resigned 1999
John Foster Hedley Director · resigned 1993
Harold Wilfred Rose Director · resigned 1996
John Rawling Director · resigned 1994
James Riddle Secretary · resigned 1993

Directors and officers on the Companies House record, current and former.

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