EAST MIDLANDS TRANSPORT HERITAGE TRUST

Registered charity 1124830 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY TRUST

To preserve,operate and exhibit for the public benefit, for educational and instructional purposes, and to stimulate and encourage interest in all kinds of railway transportation systems, vehicles and equipment to foster and support railway preservation and to raise funds for and to acquire or to assist in acquiring railway engines, rolling stock, ancillary and other equipment, and buildings.

Objects

(a) The advancement of education for the public benefit through the operation of a living transport museum. (b) The advancement of heritage by the preservation and operation for the public benefit of the historical railway known as Great Central Railway Nottingham. (c) The advancement of transport heritage through the engineering and demonstration of scale models of rail transport. (d) The advancement of heritage by the preservation and operation for the public benefit of road transport in the East Midlands including the preservation, conservation, maintenance, repair and demonstration of heritage buses and other road transport. (e) The advancement of citizenship and community development for all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities through the promotion of volunteering, learning and training including training and development in heritage skills. (f) The advancement of conservation of the flora, fauna and species within the Charity?s lineside estate, including designated areas of special scientific interest forming part of that estate.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. 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: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rushcliffe, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £153,657 for the year ended 31 January 2026, driven largely by a merger with the LNER (GC) Heritage Trust which contributed £267,717 in assets. Unrestricted funds increased to £469,286, well above the trustees' internal threshold of £40,000 for grant provision, indicating strong liquidity. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 02481338 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY (NOTTINGHAM) LIMITED Companies House 04277779 · 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.

• SHARPE, Karen — director, appointed 15/03/2025on trustee list
• FILLINGHAM, Andrew Phillip — director, appointed 15/03/2025on trustee list
• GREENWELL, Lawrence — director, appointed 15/03/2025on trustee list
• KIRKBRIDE, Roger Edward Howard — director, appointed 15/03/2025on trustee list
• ROE, Martin — director, appointed 15/03/2025on trustee list
• BAINES, Clive Ian — director, appointed 29/07/2021on trustee list
• MORLEY, Peter Thomas — director, appointed 01/02/2021on trustee list
• RAE, David Cameron, Professor — director, appointed 01/02/2021on trustee list
• FRECKELTON, Malcolm — director, appointed 28/09/2011on trustee list
• MORLEY, Peter Thomas — secretary, appointed 01/03/2024

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor David Cameron Raechair
• Andrew Fillingham
• Clive Ian Baines
• Karen Sharpe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lawrence Greenwell
• MALCOLM FRECKELTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Martin Roe · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Thomas Morley · trustee of 2 other charities
• Roger Kirkbride · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• MALCOLM FRECKELTON — trustee here and at THE DAVID CLARKE RAILWAY TRUST

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LNER (GC) HERITAGE TRUST.

• LNER (GC) HERITAGE TRUST income £24k
• MIDLAND RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED income £615k
• THE EAST ANGLIA TRANSPORT MUSEUM SOCIETY LIMITED income £318k
• EAST KENT RAILWAY TRUST income £79k
• WEST SOMERSET RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST LTD income £88k
• BODMIN RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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