Wensleydale Railway Trust

Registered charity 1088324 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WENSLEYDALE RAILWAY ASSOCIATION (TRUST) LIMITED, WENSLEYDALE RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED

We have completed the restoration of Scruton and Leeming Bar Station building. We have donated to assist in the restoration of Bedale signal box, which is a listed building of heritage interest. We have spent money on in-house training and specialised training courses for volunteers. We are involving the Trust in contacts with schools, through two specific projects.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total funds increased to £1,341,818, with unrestricted reserves standing at £1,254,071. The trustees report that invested reserves of around £50,000 are sufficient to maintain the Trust through any short-term problem, and the charity has no debts. The going concern basis is adopted based on the expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wensleydale Railway Association (Trust) Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2020)

Reported reserves equal ~22.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Peter Drury
• Alex Dudiak
• Christopher David John Williams
• Claire Sheena Jarmain
• DAVID WALKER
• Neil Stuart Guest
• Phillip Harrison
• Richard James Holt
• Sandra Larden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wendy Jane Shepherd

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cumbria · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST SOMERSET RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST LTD.

• WEST SOMERSET RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST LTD income £3.0m
• OSWESTRY STATION BUILDING TRUST LIMITED income £337k
• The Friends of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway income £204k
• RICHMONDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD income £2.2m
• SOMERSET AND DORSET RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST income £666k
• ROTHER VALLEY RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.