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Registered charity · Birmingham

Vintage Trains Charitable Trust

Vintage Trains Charitable Trust is a registered charity (number 1040904) based in Birmingham, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Christopher Michael Whitehouse. Latest income £3.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Birmingham Railway Museum (Charity Commission)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (2025)
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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
Birmingham City
Website
www.vintagetrains.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Vintage Trains Charitable Trust
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.6m£3.7m
  • 2024£3.8m£3.8m
  • 2023£4.0m£4.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.9m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

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.

Grants received

4 grants · £432,100 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £292,200 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £139,900 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £97,4002021-03-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £194,8002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £49,9002020-07-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £90,0002017-07-24
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.

8 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
15.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

5
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 8Education/training 1General 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.

Arts and leisure 8Manufacturing 4Professional services 4

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£3.6m latest income · spending exceeded income 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 · was 2.8 in 2021

0
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.
2%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.
121 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1040904
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/08/1993AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 17/01/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 07/02/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13 NOV 2017
Companies House
Company number 02848449 · Active
Contact on the register
01217084960 · GARY.MOULDER@VINTAGETRAINS.CO.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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