THE KIDDERMINSTER RAILWAY MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 518479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

An independent museum established for the collection and conservation of relics and documents depicting the railways of the British Isles, and subsequently making them available to all those who wish to access them.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC:- TO ENCOURAGE AND TO PROMOTE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE PRESERVATION OF STEAM AND OTHER RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK, MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT OF HISTORICAL INTEREST, AND IN RAILWAYS, LOCOMOTIVES, ROLLING STOCK, AND RAILWAY MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT GENERALLY.

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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wyre Forest, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a trading surplus of £23,414 for the year ended 31 December 2025, following a significant £80,000 bequest. Per the trustees' report, the museum continues on a sound footing despite falling footfall and rising costs, with unrestricted funds increasing to £414,897. The charity is not part of a group and has no subsidiary companies or pension scheme deficits.

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 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02033064 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• BROUGHTON, James Kenneth — director, appointed 09/05/2024not on trustee list
• YARKER, Michael Edward John — director, appointed 11/04/2019not on trustee list
• SAULL, Raymond John — director, appointed 26/01/2017on trustee list
• GRAINGER, David James — director, appointed 08/11/2007on trustee list
• REDFERN, Paul David — director, appointed 03/07/2003on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Stephen Andrew — director, appointed 13/01/1996on trustee list
• TULL, Stephen Arthur — directornot on trustee list
• EVANS, David John — directoron trustee list
• BAXTER, Ian Stewart — secretary, appointed 09/11/2012

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN ANDREW WILLIAMSchair
• ANTHONY JOHN LAMBERT
• DAVID JAMES GRAINGER
• DAVID JOHN EVANS
• PAUL DAVID REDFERN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raymond John Saull
• STEVE TULL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

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 MIDLAND RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED.

• MIDLAND RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED income £615k
• YORKSHIRE DALES RAILWAY MUSEUM TRUST (HOLDINGS) LIMITED income £4.2m
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE WARWICKSHIRE RAILWAY TRUST income £733k
• BODMIN RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST income £105k
• North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust income £9.1m
• CHINNOR AND PRINCES RISBOROUGH RAILWAY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £200k

Side by side with its peers

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