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Registered charity · Cheltenham

Railway Paths Limited

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £2.5m (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.railwaypaths.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Railway Paths Limited
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.5m£1.2m
  • 2024£996k£1.2m
  • 2023£2.2m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1) THE PROVISION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF ROUTES, ROADS AND PATHS SUITABLE FOR CYCLING, WALKING, HORSERIDING AND WHEEL-CHAIR USE.2) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE.3) THE PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF SUCH OF THE STRUCTURES, BUILDINGS, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT ON ANY LAND WHICH MAY AT ANY TIME BE VESTED IN THE COMPANY OR IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE COMPANY MAY HAVE AN INTEREST AS ARE OF HISTORIC, CULTURAL, ARCHITECTURAL, CONSTRUCTIONAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST.4) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECTS OF ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES

Grants received

5 grants · £176,100 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £113,100 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £31,500
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £31,500 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £18,9002024-04-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £12,6002023-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £31,5002022-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £99,5002019-06-27
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £13,6002003-01-17
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

5.9y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

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 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.

Professional services 10Transport 3Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£2.5m 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.

10.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021

10 from 8 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
1070003
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 MAY 1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 MAY 1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 OCT 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 MAR 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 OCT 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 FEB 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 JUN 2023AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04 OCT 2023
Companies House
Company number 03535618 · Active
Contact on the register
00 · estateoffice@railwaypaths.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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