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Registered charity · Worcestershire

Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Limited

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Shropshire, Worcestershire
Website
www.svrtrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Limited
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£926k
  • 2024£1.3m£818k
  • 2023£1.6m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£836k£1.4m
  • 2021£1.5m£846k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

(1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE ACQUISITION, RESTORATION, PRESERVATION AND OPERATION OF HERITAGE RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, STATION BUILDINGS, TRACK AND OTHER ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE; (2) ESTABLISHING BUILDINGS TO HOUSE AND PRESERVE THE CHARITY'S ROLLING STOCK COLLECTION; (3) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL AND INTERPRETIVE DISPLAYS FOR THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC; AND (4) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS TRAINING USED IN THE RESTORATION, REPAIR AND OPERATION OF HISTORIC RAILWAYS TO ENSURE THEIR LONG TERM SURVIVAL.

Grants received

4 grants · £1,550,600 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

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £30,0002022-05-06
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £925,6002017-06-06
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £95,0002014-01-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £500,0002013-05-21
Board analysis for researchers

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

2.6y median 2.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
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.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Education/training 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8

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

Business services 8Transport 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.3m 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.

26.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.0 in 2020

1
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
1092723
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/12/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/03/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16/05/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/06/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26/02/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 MAR 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28 MAR 2017 as amended on 08 Apr 2019
Companies House
Company number 04341280 · Active
Contact on the register
01562757940 · fundraising@svrtrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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