THE WORLD SPEEDWAY RIDERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1114501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPEEDWAY MUSEUM, THE SPEEDWAY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION

The charity's objectives are to establish a Speedway Museum (completed in 2007) and to maintain/operate it for general public benefit. The Charity took a breather during 2009 but has started on new projects in 2010

Objects

* TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A SPEEDWAY MUSEUM FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC* THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE WORKING OR SUPPORTING THE SPORT OF SPEEDWAY (IN UK) BY PROVIDING PERSONS WITH GOODS OR SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £9,130 for the year ended December 31, 2025, primarily due to urgent museum heating replacement costs. Despite this deficit, the trustees report that unrestricted net assets stand at £120,890, which they maintain is equivalent to a minimum of six months of expenditure. The trustees attribute the financial pressure to rising postage and printing costs, which have necessitated a membership fee increase from January 1, 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Robson
• Graham Alan Roderick Brodie
• Graham Stuart Darling
• Lynn Kathleen Whitnall
• Michael Alexander Richard Hooker
• Peter Oakes
• Peter Schroeck
• Philip Ranson
• ROBERT PEARSON HARKINS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SPEEDWAY RIDERS' BENEVOLENT FUND.

• THE SPEEDWAY RIDERS' BENEVOLENT FUND income £179k
• THE LEAMINGTON & WARWICK MODEL RAILWAY SOCIETY income £27k
• WEST HERTS CHARITY TRUST LIMITED income £272k
• WINTER SPORTS FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• SOUTH RIDGEWAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £73k
• WARLEY MODEL RAILWAY CLUB income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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