RIBBLE STEAM RAILWAY LIMITED

Registered charity 507266 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RIBBLE STEAM RAILWAY, STEAMPORT SOUTHPORT LIMITED

Ribble Steam Railway Ltd operates a heritage railway in Preston Lancashire which includes an accredited museum with railway locomotives and other historic items on display.

Objects

TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE PRESERVATION OF STEAM AND OTHER RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT OF HISTORICAL INTEREST AND IN RAILWAYS ROAD WATER AND OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORT BETWEEN PERSONS INTERESTED IN SUCH MATTERS.

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.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity posted an overall loss for the year of over £45k, driven by the loss of Gift Aid payments and reduced shop income, despite a significant increase in visitor numbers and general admission revenue. However, the trustees report that net current assets of £213,136 fall within their stated reserves policy target of six months' expenditure, indicating sufficient solvency to continue operations.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01112380
• Trading subsidiary: RIBBLE RAIL LTD Companies House 04293655

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MORTIMORE, Graham Nicholas — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Katie Marie — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
• WAUGH, Stewart Ian — director, appointed 26/10/2021on trustee list
• CAIN, Stephen — director, appointed 24/08/2019on trustee list
• OWEN, Timothy David — director, appointed 19/09/2017on trustee list
• PINCH, Alison — director, appointed 19/09/2017on trustee list
• BURKE, Matthew — director, appointed 21/06/2011on trustee list
• LIDDLE, Peter — director, appointed 26/10/2009on trustee list
• WALKER, Andrew Russell — directoron trustee list
• BAILEY, Michael — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Katie Marie Smith
• MATTHEW BURKE
• MR ANDREW RUSSELL WALKER
• MR MICHAEL BAILEY
• Mr Timothy Owen
• Philip Ian Lochrie
• STEWART IAN WAUGH · trustee of 1 other charity
• alison pinch
• david billington
• graham nicholas mortimore
• peter liddle
• stephen cain

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RHYL STEAM PRESERVATION TRUST.

• RHYL STEAM PRESERVATION TRUST income £187k
• SITTINGBOURNE AND KEMSLEY LIGHT RAILWAY LIMITED income £80k
• FOXFIELD LIGHT RAILWAY SOCIETY LIMITED income £389k
• YORKSHIRE DALES RAILWAY MUSEUM TRUST (HOLDINGS) LIMITED income £4.2m
• RIBBLE VEHICLE PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £66k
• THE KIDDERMINSTER RAILWAY MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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