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Registered charity · County Durham

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.a1steam.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£792k
  • 2024£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.7m£682k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.9m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.6m£878k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government contracts 48%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO STUDY, RESEARCH, PRESERVE, RESTORE, DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, DEVELOP, ENHANCE, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AND ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF THE RAILWAY HERITAGE OF THE LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR EDUCATIONAL AND INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE COMPANY'S EXISTING PEPPERCORN CLASS A1 LOCOMOTIVE, 'TORNADO' A GRESLEY CLASS P2 LOCOMOTIVE AND THE KYLCHAP DOUBLE BLAST PIPE AND CHIMNEY; AND(2) TO PRESERVE AND IMPROVE THE GENERAL, HISTORICAL, ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE REGARDING THE ABOVE RAILWAY HERITAGE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR EDUCATIONAL AND INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES.

Grants received

3 grants · £165,100 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • The Ballinger Charitable Trust £1,0002024-05-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £11,1002021-03-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £153,0002020-10-14
Board analysis

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.

10 trustees on the board

3.5y median 1.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Manufacturing 41Transport 12Retail and trade 6

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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 · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

7 from 7 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1022834
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/08/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/06/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/03/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/01/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/05/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/03/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 24/01/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 DEC 2021
Companies House
Company number 02636924 · Active
Contact on the register
01325460163 · enquiries@a1steam.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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