LNER COACH ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1183387 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LNERCA

Restoration and maintenance of heritage LNER carriages for the public to enjoy and travel in on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR). Training volunteers and educating the public in the techniques of heritage railway coach building.Building a library of technical knowledge for sharing with other heritage carriage restorers

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART AND TECHNIQUE OF RAILWAY COACH BUILDING, BY: I) OBTAINING, RESTORING AND OPERATING A COLLECTION OF LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY (LNER) PASSENGER AND NON-PASSENGER CARRYING COACHING STOCK AND/OR THOSE OF CONSTITUENT COMPANIES OF THE LNER. II) ACTING AS A RESOURCE FOR RAILWAY PRESERVATION ORGANISATIONS TO FACILITATE GREATER PUBLIC ACCESS TO, AND INCREASED PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN, THE EDUCATION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED RAILWAY VEHICLES, INCLUDING THE RECREATION OF AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCES OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF RAIL TRAVEL FOR THE PUBLIC TO ENJOY. III) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE COLLECTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS

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 maintained a strong financial position with total funds increasing from £90,714 to £91,733. Total receipts of £184,987 were slightly exceeded by total payments of £189,732, resulting in a net decrease in unrestricted funds. The charity is embarking on a direction to become self-financing through contracting skills and hiring carriages.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (80% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• William James Monkschair
• Adrian Philip Laming
• David Cullingworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gordon Wells
• Neil Cawthorne
• PETER NICHOLAS WILSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Johnson
• ROBERT MURRAY BROWN · trustee of 1 other charity
• RUSSELL WHITWAM
• Shaun Timothy Saltmarsh

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust.

• North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust income £9.8m
• L&NWR SOCIETY income £48k
• NORTH EASTERN LOCOMOTIVE PRESERVATION GROUP income £226k
• SOUTH TYNEDALE RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY income £297k
• CYMDEITHAS RHEILFFORDD ERYRI income £147k
• EAST LANCASHIRE LIGHT RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED income £5.2m

Side by side with its peers

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