# LICHFIELD SHERIFF'S RIDE

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1215898
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** Nov. 24, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1215898


## Contact

- **Address:** 64 Cornfield Drive, Lichfield
- **Postcode:** WS14 9UG
- **Phone:** 01543256083
- **Email:** jaynemarks@virginmedia.com



## Activities

**Objects:** THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE HISTORICAL TRADITION OF THE LICHFIELD SHERIFF’S RIDE – THE CEREMONIAL PERAMBULATION OF LICHFIELD WHICH HAS BEEN CONDUCTED ANNUALLY BY THE SHERIFFS OF LICHFIELD SINCE IT WAS COMMANDED IN QUEEN MARY’S CHARTER OF 1553.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON THE HISTORY, TRADITION, SYMBOLISM AND CULTURE OF THE LICHFIELD SHERIFF’S RIDE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY LECTURES, TALKS, PUBLICATIONS AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES.

**Activities:** The organization exists to support, promote and facilitate an annual perambulation of the boundary of theCity of Lichfield, on or near the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as commanded by QueenMary in the Charter of 1553 that separated Lichfield from Staffordshire, making it a separate county withthe right to appoint its own Sheriff.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Other Finance, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
- **Who:** Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Staffordshire




## Trustees

- **NICHOLAS GEORGE SEDGWICK** (Chair) — appointed Nov. 24, 2025
- Dr DARYL JOHN BROWN — appointed Nov. 24, 2025
- Ian Jamie Checkland — appointed Jan. 16, 2026
- Jayne Louise Marks — appointed Nov. 24, 2025
- John Ashley Crawford FRSA — appointed Nov. 24, 2025
- Robert Paul Yardley — appointed Nov. 24, 2025