GLOUCESTERSHIRE WARWICKSHIRE RAILWAY TRUST

Registered charity 1133186 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The formation,management and maintenance of a musuem of Railway Memorabilia for the benefit of the public and for the educational and research purposes.

Objects

4. The charity’s objects (“Objects”) are specifically restricted to the following:To support and/or maintain the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway as a living museum for the benefit of the public.

Area of benefit: UNDEFIND. 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £84,491 for the year ended 31 January 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves to £585,056. The trustees' report notes that the charity aims to maintain reserves equivalent to approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure, a target which the current unrestricted reserves exceed. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ormerod Rutter Limited. Discloses 5 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~69.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Andrew Caulfield
• Andrew James Smith
• Bryony Exton
• David Eric Burch
• Ian Charles Mitchell
• James Anthony Edwards
• John Edward Forkes
• Prof Adrian James Palmer
• RICHARD SCOTT

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Warwickshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED.

• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• CHINNOR AND PRINCES RISBOROUGH RAILWAY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £200k
• WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £191k
• STATFOLD NARROW GAUGE MUSEUM TRUST LTD income £3.2m
• OSWESTRY STATION BUILDING TRUST LIMITED income £337k
• VALE OF RHEIDOL RAILWAY LIMITED income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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