EAST KENT RAILWAY TRUST

Registered charity 1095790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The East Kent Railway Trust aims to preserve the railway and industrial heritage of South East England. This includes items relating to the former Kent Coalfields.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY FURTHERING INTEREST AND APPRECIATION OF RAILWAY LINES, EQUIPMENT, BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION AND STEAM IN PARTICULAR TO INCREASE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE EAST KENT LIGHT RAILWAY BY RESTORING AND PRESERVING RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, VEHICLES AND OTHER ARTEFACTS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST AND BUILDINGS CONNECTED THEREWITH FOR THE BENEFIT AND EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND THE PRESERVING OF BOOKS, DRAWINGS, RECORDS, DOCUMENTS, SOUND AND VISUAL RECORDINGS, CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO SUCH ARTEFACTS AND VEHICLES, THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT, AND DISPLAYING THE SAME.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Folkestone and Hythe, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small operating profit of £536 for the year ended 31 January 2026, with turnover of £79,044. The trustees report that development has been significantly reduced due to increased material costs, although income is holding steady. Net assets increased slightly to £216,673, indicating stable financial reserves.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04294363 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• COTTER, Carol Joyce — director, appointed 23/02/2025on trustee list
• PLEWS, Matthew Owen Victor — director, appointed 23/02/2025on trustee list
• WATSON, Robert Mark — director, appointed 23/02/2025on trustee list
• HODGES, Alan — director, appointed 21/05/2016on trustee list
• COTTER, Carol Joyce — secretary, appointed 01/12/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Harrischair
• Alan James Hodges · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Cotter
• Mark Watson
• Matthew Plews

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE KENT AND EAST SUSSEX RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED.

• THE KENT AND EAST SUSSEX RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED income £2.7m
• Tanfield Railway Trust Limited income £263k
• EAST MIDLANDS TRANSPORT HERITAGE TRUST income £346k
• EAST LANCASHIRE LIGHT RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED income £6.2m
• EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED income £87k
• EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY HOLDINGS COMPANY LIMITED income £68k

Side by side with its peers

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