HISTORICAL MODEL RAILWAY SOCIETY

Registered charity 1166144 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HMRS

PRESERVING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION FOR RESEARCHERS AND MODELLERS.

Objects

1) THE STUDY RECORDING AND PRESERVATION, FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, OF INFORMATION AND ILLUSTRATIVE AND OTHER MATERIAL RELATING TO ALL RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE BRITISH RAILWAY INDUSTRY;2) TO ARRANGE THAT SUCH MATERIAL IS AVAILABLE FOR REFERENCE AND EXCHANGE AND TO ENCOURAGE ITS PUBLICATION FOR THE USE AND EDUCATION BOTH OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY AND OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL;3) THE CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND PRESERVATION AND PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF MODELS OF THOSE RAILWAYS AND THEIR EQUIPMENT FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC;4) TO ARRANGE MEETINGS, VISITS, LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE AIMS.

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net expenditure of £16,225 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £749,182 to £732,957. The trustees maintain a rolling management budget with the aim of achieving a small operating surplus each year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £721,504 and reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY STRAW
• Allan William Jacques
• Andrew Vincent
• Charles Norman Levin
• David Smith
• Dr Richard Nicholas Crockett
• Ian Davie
• John Ambler
• John Arthur Hobden
• John Richard Lonergan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert Arthur Brian Griffiths
• Stephen Nicholas Lea · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Birch

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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