MIDDLETON RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 230387 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MIDDLETON RAILWAY TRUST

Preserving and operating the historic Middleton Colliery Railway, Leeds.

Objects

TO PRESERVE, MAINTAIN, KEEP IN REPAIR AND WORKING CONDITION THE HISTORIC MIDDLETON COLLIERY RAILWAY, LEEDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF CONSTITUTION).

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust met its primary financial objective for 2024 by covering all direct operating costs out of revenue, avoiding the need to draw down on reserves. This result was achieved through careful cost control and better-than-budgeted revenues, despite overall passenger numbers being slightly down on the previous year. The Trust notes that its resources are limited and that future ambitions require external funding and secured tenure.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Middleton Railway Turst (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles William Milnerchair
• Andrew Johnson
• DAVID JOHN HEBDEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geordie Brown
• George Melvyn Jones
• Janet Elizabeth Auckland
• John Brian Holmes
• Mark Adam Calvert
• Matthew Berry
• Philip Calvert
• Richard Geoffrey Pike
• STEVE ROBERTS

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWINDON AND CRICKLADE RAILWAY.

• SWINDON AND CRICKLADE RAILWAY income £301k
• THE MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST income £2.5m
• THE SWANAGE RAILWAY TRUST income £4.1m
• THE DAVID CLARKE RAILWAY TRUST income £1.6m
• Watercress Line Heritage Railway Trust Limited income £3.7m
• WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £191k

Side by side with its peers

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