SOUTH TYNEDALE RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Registered charity 514939 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH TYNEDALE RAILWAY

Preservation, maintenance, operation and display of narrow-gauge railway locomotives, rolling stock and associated equipment.

Objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT STEAM AND OTHER RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK, MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL AND HISTORICAL INTEREST. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3(1) (A) TO (X).

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased slightly to £2,955,243, with unrestricted reserves of £461,748 significantly exceeding the stated policy target of approximately £40,000. The charity reported a net income of £12,841 and confirmed it is a going concern, noting that income from tourism covers most operating costs.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Heritage Lottery Fund — “Heritage Lottery Fund To read more about this supporter please click here .” (source page)
• Cumbria Growth Fund — “Cumbria Growth Fund To read more about this supporter please click here .” (source page)
• Big Lottery Fund — “Big Lottery Fund To read more about this Supporter please click here .” (source page)
• North East Rural Growth/LEP — “North East Rural Growth/LEP To read more about this supporter please click here .” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation To read more about this supporter please click here .” (source page)
• Leader — “Leader South Tyne Trail and Slaggyford Station Buffet Development: NPD LEADER supported the Society with funds to support the costs extern…” (source page)
• EAFRD — “The EAFRD provided funding for this activity. To read more about this supporter please click here .” (source page)
• Arts Council — “Arts Council To read more about this supporter please click here .” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

23 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (12 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Douglas Patterson
• David John Smith
• Francis John Shaw
• Jonathan Martin Dick
• Kevin Bernard Simon Malone
• Paul Humphries

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Northumberland

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £191k
• WEST LANCASHIRE LIGHT RAILWAY TRUST income £99k
• NORTH EASTERN LOCOMOTIVE PRESERVATION GROUP income £226k
• THE MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST income £2.5m
• WELSHPOOL AND LLANFAIR LIGHT RAILWAY PRESERVATION CO. LIMITED income £1.2m
• PHYLLIS RAMPTON NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY TRUST income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.