The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Preservation CO. Limited

Registered charity 1000378 Registered since 1990

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.9y median 2y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 2General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Transport 11Other services 7Arts and leisure 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.2m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

16.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 18.2 in 2021

9 from 5 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.wllr.org.uk
Emailinfo@wllr.org.uk
Phone01938810441
AddressWelshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, Llanfair Station, Pool Road, Llanfair Caereinion, WELSHPOOL, Powys

Finances

£1,232,933 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,511,892£925,585
2022£1,214,983£953,323
2023£968,288£1,076,508
2024£980,028£1,095,708
2025£1,232,933£1,023,404

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTION BY THE PRESERVATION OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES AND/OR ROLLING STOCK AND/OR HISTORIC RAILWAY LINES

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4/1/1960 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 23/7/1966 23/9/1967 28/7/1973 14/7/1977 9/5/1981 5/5/1984 11/8/1990 05/03/1994 AND 05/05/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 MAY 2016 as amended on 19 May 2019 as amended on 18 May 2024

Trustees (11)

11trustees
65median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway Preservation CO Limited · 00646238 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 04/01/1960

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (6)

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