EPB PRESERVATION GROUP

Registered charity 1132225 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Restoration and operation of vintage "third rail" electric trains. Supply of historic information and education/advice about electric trains of this type and similar. Assisting other organisations with similar aims.

Objects

THE ACQUISITION, RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, DISPLAY, AND OPERATION OF RAILWAY VEHICLES, ALSO ANY ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT COMPLEMENTARY TO THEM. IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS THE CHARITY MAY INDEPENDENTLY, OR IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS, BECOME INVOLVED IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO MAINTAIN, STORE, EXHIBIT AND OPERATE TRAINS ON A NOT FOR PROFIT BASIS."

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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: Hounslow, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with unrestricted reserves of £13,993.98, an increase from the opening balance of £7,298.96. Total income for the year was £31,553.14, while total expenditure was £24,858.12, resulting in a surplus. The filing indicates adequate resources with no stated financial risks or uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT BAINESchair
• BRENDAN PAUL GASH
• CHRISTOPHER ALLAN DUNN
• JAMIE DAVID SLATTER
• KELVIN TREMAINE PINNOCK
• MARTIN JOHN RICHARDSON
• NIKOLAS ALFRED ANTHONY
• ROBERT PHILIP BAINES

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HERITAGE ELECTRIC TRAINS TRUST.

• THE HERITAGE ELECTRIC TRAINS TRUST income £26k
• THE EASTERN COUNTIES BUS PRESERVATION GROUP income £89k
• SOUTH TYNEDALE RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY income £297k
• RIBBLE VEHICLE PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £66k
• Tanfield Railway Trust Limited income £263k
• THE LONDON BUS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £398k

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