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Registered charity · Crewe

The Railway Children

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £4.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 2 more
Where
India, Tanzania, Scotland, Throughout England
Website
www.railwaychildren.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Railway Children
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.5m£4.3m
  • 2024£4.5m£4.4m
  • 2023£3.9m£4.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.1m£4.4m
  • 2021£4.9m£4.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS UNDER 25 YEARS OF AGE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE LIVING ON THE STREETS.

Grants received

23 grants · £3,595,532 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 National Lottery Community Fund £126,7752026-01-29
  • CAF £27,3512025-07-01
  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002024-09-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £470,9122024-06-28
  • EA Foundation £35,0002024-06-24
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.

14 trustees on the board

4.1y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

13
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 14

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

Health and social care 16Transport 12Business services 10

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£4.5m 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.8 in 2021

129 from 100 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
1058991
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 OCTOBER 1996 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 6 DECEMBER 2006 AND 2 DECEMBER 2009.
Companies House
Company number 03265496 · Active
Contact on the register
01270757596 · hello@railwaychildren.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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