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The Oversight Trust-Assets for the Common Good
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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Vaughan Emerson LindsayDirector · since 2025
- Philip ChamberlainDirector · since 2025
- Meera CrastonDirector · since 2024
- David Clive LindsellDirector · since 2023
- Victoria Anne ThorntonDirector · since 2023
- Kevin Roy DavisDirector · since 2020
- Andrew Martin RoseDirector · since 2020
- Helen Margaret EnglandDirector · since 2020
- Nicola PollockDirector · since 2018
- Joanna Lisette FoxDirector · since 2017
- Michael Robert BarberSecretary · since 2026
Previous officers 22
- Robert Donald Bell 2023-2025 View profile
- Clara Denise Barby 2020-2023 View profile
- Ian Stuart Hughes 2019-2025 View profile
- Dame Clare Tickell 2017-2019 View profile
- Sir Stuart James Etherington 2017-2025 View profile
- Asheem Singh 2016-2017 View profile
- John Gordon Kingston OBE 2016-2019 View profile
- Stephen Lee Howard 2016-2024 View profile
- Robin Francis Budenberg 2015-2020 View profile
- Sir Stephen John Limrick Bubb 2015-2016 View profile
- Sir Harvey Andrew Mcgrath 2014-2019 View profile
- Dame Helen Mary Stephenson 2013-2017 View profile
- Baroness Jill Elizabeth Pitkeathley 2011-2018 View profile
- Peter Holbrook CBE 2011-2020 View profile
- Sir Richard Peter Lambert 2011-2015 View profile
- David Neil Robinson 2011-2017 View profile
- Sir Ian Edward Lamert Davis 2011-2016 View profile
- Gareth Neil Davies 2011-2013 View profile
- Nicholas Peter O'Donohoe 2011-2011 View profile
- Sir Ronald Mourad Cohen 2011-2014 View profile
- Alastair Ian Ballantyne 2015-2026 View profile
- Janet Mary Turner Qc 2012-2015 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.
- Incorporated
- 20/04/2011
- Registered office
- London
- Previous names
- The BIG Society Trust (until 16/08/2020)
Group
No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above The Oversight Trust-Assets for the Common Good on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.
4 other companies in this group
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.
Grants received
2 grants · £100,000 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £100,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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
- Kevin Roy Davis Director · appointed 2020
- Joanna Lisette Fox Director · appointed 2017
- Philip Chamberlain Director · appointed 2025
- Nicola Pollock Director · appointed 2018
- Meera Craston Director · appointed 2024
- David Clive Lindsell Director · appointed 2023
- Vaughan Emerson Lindsay Director · appointed 2025
- Victoria Anne Thornton Director · appointed 2023
- Andrew Martin Rose Director · appointed 2020
- Helen Margaret England Director · appointed 2020
Directors past 6 years
- Kevin Roy Davis Director · appointed 2020
- Joanna Lisette Fox Director · appointed 2017
- Nicola Pollock Director · appointed 2018
- Andrew Martin Rose Director · appointed 2020
- Helen Margaret England Director · appointed 2020
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (2)
- Philip Chamberlain Director · appointed 2025
- David Clive Lindsell Director · appointed 2023
Portfolio (8)
- Kevin Roy Davis Director · appointed 2020
- Joanna Lisette Fox Director · appointed 2017
- Nicola Pollock Director · appointed 2018
- Meera Craston Director · appointed 2024
- Vaughan Emerson Lindsay Director · appointed 2025
- Victoria Anne Thornton Director · appointed 2023
- Andrew Martin Rose Director · appointed 2020
- Helen Margaret England Director · appointed 2020
Also govern a charity
- Kevin Roy Davis The Black Country NET
- Nicola Pollock The Henry Smith Charity, Local Trust, The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
- Meera Craston NEW Philanthropy Capital
- David Clive Lindsell Camden Music Trust
- Vaughan Emerson Lindsay NEW Philanthropy Capital
- Andrew Martin Rose The A and R Woolf Charitable Trust
- Helen Margaret England Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
Left in the last 12 months
- Robert Donald Bell 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
- 07611016
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- 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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