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Rother Valley Railway Heritage Trust

Rother Valley Railway Heritage Trust is a registered charity (number 1088452) based in Robertsbridge, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £2.3m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

9 trustees
Income £2.3m (2024)

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About

What it does: Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where: East Sussex, Kent
Website: www.rvr.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2001

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2024£2.3m£185k
2023£2.2m£160k
2022£29k£146k

Earlier years

2021£940k£128k
2020£755k£174k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(1) To preserve for the benefit of Kent and East Sussex and of the Nation, the historical architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in around Kent and East Sussex in buildings (including any buildings as defined in section 336 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) or structures of particular beauty or historical architectural or constructional interest; and/or(2) To preserve for the public benefit, and to advance the education of the public in, railway lines, equipment and buildings, and their heritage, in particular, but not exclusively, by:a. building, restoring, maintaining, managing and operating railway lines;b. building, maintaining, managing and operating museums connected with railways;c. building, restoring, maintaining, managing and operating buildings, facilities and other structures or arrangements required for the operation of railways;d. delivering educational workshops, talks and materials to the public; e. restoring and managing rolling stock, carriages and artefacts connected with railways

Grants received

1 grant · £150,000 total

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Top funders

Garfield Weston Foundation · £150,000

Most recent

Garfield Weston Foundation £150,0002024-11-11

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.

9 trustees on the board

5.7y median 6.5y

average tenure

10y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

David William Keay since 2017
David James Slack since 2016
Richard Broyd since 2017

9.5y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (5)

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 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9General Charitable Purposes 3Disability 1Religious Activities 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.

Transport 5Professional services 4Arts and leisure 3

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.

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2021

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2024

incomespending£2.3m 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.

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

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: 1088452
Status: Registered
Governing document: DECLARATION OF TRUST MADE 17 JANUARY, 2001. as amended on 28 Jul 2025
Contact on the register: 01580881833 · reception@rvr.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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