NORTH WEST VEHICLE RESTORATION TRUST

Registered charity 1143261 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF UK ROAD TRANSPORT AND TO PRESERVE, & RESTORE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, HISTORIC OR POTENTIALLY HISTORIC ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT VEHICLES,EQUIPMENT AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ARTIFACTS FROM THE UK

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING, THIS MAY INCLUDE: 1. PRACTICAL TRAINING IN THE MAINTENANCE AND RESTORATION OF HISTORIC VEHICLES AND RELATED ARTEFACTS; 2. CLASSROOM BASED LEARNING IN THE HISTORY, USE, MAINTENANCE AND RESTORATION OF HISTORIC VEHICLES AND RELATED ARTEFACTS; 3. THE PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE, USE AND DISPLAY OF HISTORIC VEHICLES AND RELATED ARTEFACTS; 4. THE PRESERVATION OF ORIGINAL SKILLS AND CRAFTSMANSHIP ASSOCIATED WITH THE MAINTENANCE OF HISTORIC VEHICLES AND RELATED ARTEFACTS; AND 5. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT COLLECTION OF HISTORIC VEHICLES AND RELATED ARTEFACTS FOR DISPLAY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Knowsley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £11,508 for the year ended 30 April 2025, increasing its total reserves to £55,323. Per the trustees' report, the organization remains active in its principal activity of preserving historic vehicles, with no indication of financial distress or going concern issues.

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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2024 (received 15/04/2025, 46 days after the 28/02/2025 due date); year ending 30/04/2023 (received 07/08/2024, 160 days after the 29/02/2024 due date); year ending 30/04/2021 (received 25/02/2023, 362 days after the 28/02/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Andrew
• Carl Naylor
• JAMES ROWLANDS
• JOHN CHERRY
• Karl John Smith
• Philip Halewood

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

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• THE HERITAGE TRUST FOR THE NORTH WEST income £2.1m
• ENFIELD AND DISTRICT VETERAN VEHICLE TRUST income £263k
• MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT TRUST income £61k
• NORTH EAST BUS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £41k
• THE WEALD FOUNDATION income £132k
• THE EASTERN COUNTIES BUS PRESERVATION GROUP income £89k

Side by side with its peers

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