SOUTHWOLD RAILWAY TRUST

Registered charity 1117041 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Southwold Railway Trust exists to promote awareness of the heritage of the old Southwold Railway which closed in 1929, preserve any remaining artifacts of the railway and instigate re-instatement of the railway as a local community and public amenity connecting Southwold to the main line railway at Halesworth.

Objects

(I) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE ACQUISITION, RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, CONSTRUCTION OR RECONSTRUCTION AND EXHIBITION OF TRACK, RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE, CARRIAGES, ROLLING STOCK, EQUIPMENT, ARTEFACTS, DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH APPROPRIATE LAND, BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES AND, IN PARTICULAR, THOSE OF THE SOUTHWOLD RAILWAY AND TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE EXHIBITION OF SUCH ITEMS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT(II) TO UNDERTAKE AND FACILITATE HISTORICAL, SCIENTIFIC, SOCIAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF RESEARCH, TO CATALOGUE, COLLECT, COLLATE AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION RELATING THERETO BY PUBLISHING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS, BOOKS, PICTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS, FILMS, VIDEO RECORDINGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES RELATING TO THESE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. SOUTHWOLD

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted funds of £734,930 at the year end, having incurred a net outgoing resource of £10,743 for the year. The trustees report that the charity remains dependent on a small number of active volunteers and donations for its financial stability. Per the independent examiner, no matters have come to attention that would cause belief that the financial statements are materially non-compliant.

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 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.

• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05894122

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.

• STONE, Richard Ian — director, appointed 19/11/2021on trustee list
• MOLE, Robert — director, appointed 29/05/2020on trustee list
• HANDLEY, John — director, appointed 24/11/2017on trustee list
• EVANS, Nicholas Charles — director, appointed 17/01/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 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

• NICHOLAS CHARLES EVANSchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN LAURENCE BENNETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN PETER RIDGWAY
• John Handley
• Maureen Ridgway
• ROBERT MOLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Ian Stone

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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