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Young Classical Artists Trust
Support activities to performing arts
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Nicholas Charles Francis SandersonDirector · since 2026
- Kirsty Joan MacdonaldDirector · since 2024
- Rachel Elizabeth Van WalsumDirector · since 2022
- Alastair Dunbar StoreyDirector · since 2021
- Julie Elizabeth WebbDirector · since 2020
- Akhil ShahDirector · since 2020
- Sir Simon Christopher Townsend RobeyDirector · since 2019
- Michael David Gladman HorridgeDirector · since 2018
- Professor Jonathan Andrew VaughanDirector · since 2018
- Alasdair Wilson Robertson TaitSecretary · since 2008
Previous officers 41
- Elizabeth Senez 2018-2020 View profile
- Lord Terence Burns 2017-2026 View profile
- Angela Christine Dixon 2017-2025 View profile
- James Martin 2017-2021 View profile
- Sam Jackson 2016-2024 View profile
- Gaetan Jean Paul Le Divelec 2014-2022 View profile
- Hugh Francis Richards 2014-2017 View profile
- Jill Hosford Pellew 2012-2017 View profile
- Robert Rattray 2011-2014 View profile
- Professor Jonathan Freeman Attwood 2009-2018 View profile
- Tessa Gaisman 2009-2020 View profile
- Sir Christopher Owen Hum 2006-2014 View profile
- Anthony Whitworth Jones 2006-2014 View profile
- Christopher Craker 2005-2008 View profile
- Michael Arthur Trask 2003-2008 View profile
- Andrew Stuart Comben 2003-2017 View profile
- Philip Gordon Langridge 2003-2010 View profile
- Susan Katriona Macgregor 2003-2012 View profile
- Leopold David De Rothschild 2002-2005 View profile
- Lord Michael Hastings Jay 2002-2003 View profile
- Gerald Joseph Myers 2002-2006 View profile
- Michael Gwinnell 2002-2014 View profile
- Sir Brian John Mcmaster 2001-2014 View profile
- Peter Andrew Ulrich Alward 1998-2004 View profile
- David Alfred Sigall 1995-2011 View profile
- Lascelles, Patricia Elizabeth, the Countess of Harewood 1995-2003 View profile
- Valerie Beale 1995-2011 View profile
- Sir Kenneth Cynlais Morgan James 1992-2003 View profile
- Lord Francis Leonard Tombs 1992-2001 View profile
- Morris Barnes Miller 2004 View profile
- Wilfred Stiff 1996 View profile
- Julian David Smith 2003 View profile
- Stephen Unwin 1995 View profile
- Joanna Macgregor 2002 View profile
- Sir John Manduell 1993 View profile
- David Bertram Vaughan 2001 View profile
- Marie Christine Daudy 1995 View profile
- Paul Strang 2003 View profile
- Sir Ian Bruce Hope Hunter 1999 View profile
- Helen Bradshaw 1992 View profile
- Rosemary Pickering 2008 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Support activities to performing arts
- Incorporated
- 13/01/1984
- Registered office
- London
- Also a registered charity
- Young Classical Artists Trust
- Previous names
- Young Concert Artists Trust (until 28/07/2011)
Ownership
Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- Alasdair Wilson Robertson Tait ceased 2025-08-31
appoints directors (trust), significant influence (trust) · notified 2016-04-06
Group
- Young Classical Artists Trust
is controlled by Alasdair Wilson Robertson Tait
Evidence
ceased appoints directors (trust), significant influence (trust) · notified 2016-04-06, ceased 2025-08-31 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Alasdair Wilson Robertson Tait.
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.
9 directors on the board
- Sir Simon Christopher Townsend Robey Director · appointed 2019
- Alastair Dunbar Storey Director · appointed 2021
- Julie Elizabeth Webb Director · appointed 2020
- Kirsty Joan Macdonald Director · appointed 2024
- Rachel Elizabeth Van Walsum Director · appointed 2022
- Professor Jonathan Andrew Vaughan Director · appointed 2018
- Akhil Shah Director · appointed 2020
- Nicholas Charles Francis Sanderson Director · appointed 2026
- Michael David Gladman Horridge Director · appointed 2018
Directors past 6 years
- Sir Simon Christopher Townsend Robey Director · appointed 2019
- Professor Jonathan Andrew Vaughan Director · appointed 2018
- Michael David Gladman Horridge Director · appointed 2018
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (2)
- Julie Elizabeth Webb Director · appointed 2020
- Nicholas Charles Francis Sanderson Director · appointed 2026
Portfolio (7)
- Sir Simon Christopher Townsend Robey Director · appointed 2019
- Alastair Dunbar Storey Director · appointed 2021
- Kirsty Joan Macdonald Director · appointed 2024
- Rachel Elizabeth Van Walsum Director · appointed 2022
- Professor Jonathan Andrew Vaughan Director · appointed 2018
- Akhil Shah Director · appointed 2020
- Michael David Gladman Horridge Director · appointed 2018
Also govern a charity
Left in the last 12 months
- Lord Terence Burns Director · appointed 2017 · resigned 2026
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
- 01783007
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Accounts next due
- 31/05/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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