FURNESS RAILWAY TRUST

Registered charity 1163073 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ACQUISITION, RESTORATION AND OPERATION OF HISTORIC ITEMS OF RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK WITH THE LONGER TERM OBJECTIVE OF ESTABLISHING AN INDEPENDENT RAILWAY MUSEUM WITH APPROPRIATE FACILITIES FOR THE DISPLAY, STORAGE AND RESTORATION OF OF RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT.

Objects

TO ESTABLISH A RAILWAY MUSEUM

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 total unrestricted funds increased to £551,646, with net current assets rising to £284,239. However, the Trustees forecast a sizeable excess of expenditure over income for 2026 due to heavy committed costs on locomotive overhauls, though they believe the organization remains a going concern.

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 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £228k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy David Owenchair
• ALAN MIDDLETON · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAMES KAY
• JOHN DIXON
• KEITH BREWER
• MR MIKE RIGG
• PETER VAN ZELLER · trustee of 4 other charities
• Paul Harry Balshaw
• Sam Andrew Middleton

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).