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Registered charity · Lynton

The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Devon
Website
www.lynton-rail.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.9m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.3m
  • 2022£1.5m£666k
Earlier years
  • 2021£945k£252k
  • 2020£451k£294k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO ACQUIRE PRESERVE AND RESTORE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ITEMS OF HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, ENGINEERING OR SCIENTIFIC VALUE IN CONNECTION WITH RAILWAYS; AND(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY SOCIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY OF NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAYS AND RAILWAYS IN GENERAL BY THE ACQUISITION, RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, CREATION AND EXHIBITION OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES, CARRIAGES, ROLLING STOCK, EQUIPMENT, ARTEFACTS, DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH ANY APPROPRIATE LAND, BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE OF THE FORMER LYNTON & BARNSTAPLE RAILWAY IN DEVONSHIRE AND TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING FACILITIES TO THOSE ENGAGED IN THE RESTORATION AND OPERATION OF THE RAILWAY OR RAILWAYS GENERALLY.

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.

4y median 2.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 9Economic/community Development/employment 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Other services 9Hospitality 3Arts and leisure 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.4 in 2020

24
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
1082564
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 JULY 2000 AS AMENDED 4 OCTOBER 2003 AND 24 MARCH 2007. as amended on 18 May 2008 as amended on 09 May 2009 as amended on 14 May 2011
Companies House
Company number 04040633 · Active
Contact on the register
01598752795 · enquiries@lynton-rail.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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