Company · Aldershot
Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust
Botanical and zoological gardens and nature reserves activities
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Previous officers 30
- Jamie Richard Morgan 2021-2022 View profile
- Abhilash Bose 2020-2022 View profile
- Simon Philip Weeks 2020-2020 View profile
- Shelagh Heasley 2019-2021 View profile
- Sara Kinnell 2018-2019 View profile
- Mary Elizabeth Ferriss 2017-2022 View profile
- Catherine Morton 2017-2018 View profile
- Jane Biscombe 2017-2018 View profile
- Peter Collins 2017-2018 View profile
- Maria Elena Francesca Guida 2016-2017 View profile
- Alan Charles Rolfe 2015-2019 View profile
- Peter David Bolt 2014-2015 View profile
- Kenneth Bigrave 2012-2017 View profile
- Susan Doreen Cload 2011-2017 View profile
- Michael Charles Swaddling 2009-2018 View profile
- Derek Neville Wiseman 2009-2009 View profile
- David John Murr 2008-2018 View profile
- Chris Bean 2008-2012 View profile
- Janice Marguerite Chapman 2007-2011 View profile
- John David Richard Coupland 2006-2015 View profile
- Mark Gorman 2006-2007 View profile
- Katrina Elizabeth Slocombe 2006-2006 View profile
- Colin Richard Wilson 2006-2020 View profile
- Nigel Morton Baines 2004-2009 View profile
- Keith Edmund Boulnois 2004-2008 View profile
- Donald Edward Brooksbank 2004-2006 View profile
- Ronald Gulliver 2004-2008 View profile
- Dr Gerald William Bryant 2004-2006 View profile
- Ian White 2003-2009 View profile
- David Middlemore Pilkington 2003-2014 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Botanical and zoological gardens and nature reserves activities; Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c.
- Incorporated
- 15/09/2003
- Registered office
- Aldershot
- Also a registered charity
- Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust
Financials
- Net assets
- £25,450
- Total assets
- £25,835
- Employees
- 0
- Turnover
- Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-09-30. 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.
4 directors on the board
- Bernard John Baverstock Director · appointed 2008
- Christopher Smith Director · appointed 2013
- Paul Andrew Bryanhill Director · appointed 2023
- Alan Joseph Carruthers Taylor Director · appointed 2006
Directors past 6 years
- Bernard John Baverstock Director · appointed 2008
- Christopher Smith Director · appointed 2013
- Alan Joseph Carruthers Taylor Director · appointed 2006
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (3)
- Bernard John Baverstock Director · appointed 2008
- Paul Andrew Bryanhill Director · appointed 2023
- Alan Joseph Carruthers Taylor Director · appointed 2006
Portfolio (1)
- Christopher Smith Director · appointed 2013
Also govern a charity
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
- 04898996
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Accounts next due
- 30/06/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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