TALYLLYN HOLDINGS LIMITED

Registered charity 1089053 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting the Preservation of the Talyllyn Railway as a going concern.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased to £4,208,048, with free reserves of £1,201,527 held above the stated policy target of £400,000–£600,000. While the operating subsidiary reported a deficit, the charity offset this with significant philanthropic income, including legacies, allowing it to maintain a strong cash position and adequate reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00511996

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Talyllyn Railway (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MINTOFT, Peter — director, appointed 20/01/2024on trustee list
• HAYES, Keith Francis Meikle — director, appointed 23/10/2021on trustee list
• MANN, Elisabeth Janette — director, appointed 05/12/2015not on trustee list
• POULSON, Daniel Haydn Withers — director, appointed 18/07/2014not on trustee list
• VENTRY, David Graeme — director, appointed 01/12/2012on trustee list
• JONES, Richard Gareth Wynn — director, appointed 17/11/2007on trustee list
• SIMNER, Andrew John, Mr. — secretary, appointed 05/12/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £360k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~22.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Graeme Ventrychair
• Dan Poulson
• GARETH JONES
• Keith Francis Meikle Hayes
• Lis Mann
• Peter Mintoft

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

Operates in: Gwynedd

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH TYNEDALE RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY.

• SOUTH TYNEDALE RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY income £297k
• WELSHPOOL AND LLANFAIR LIGHT RAILWAY PRESERVATION CO. LIMITED income £1.2m
• THE FFESTINIOG AND WELSH HIGHLAND RAILWAYS TRUST (YMDDIRIEDOLAETH RHEILFFYRDD FFESTINIOG AC ERYRI) income £11.9m
• WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £191k
• RAILWAY PATHS LIMITED income £2.5m
• SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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