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Registered charity · Folkestone

East Kent Railway Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £80k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Where
Kent
Website
www.eastkentrailway.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
East Kent Railway Trust
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£80k£80k
  • 2024£73k£74k
  • 2023£117k£106k
Earlier years
  • 2022£103k£87k
  • 2021£65k£62k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY FURTHERING INTEREST AND APPRECIATION OF RAILWAY LINES, EQUIPMENT, BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION AND STEAM IN PARTICULAR TO INCREASE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE EAST KENT LIGHT RAILWAY BY RESTORING AND PRESERVING RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, VEHICLES AND OTHER ARTEFACTS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST AND BUILDINGS CONNECTED THEREWITH FOR THE BENEFIT AND EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND THE PRESERVING OF BOOKS, DRAWINGS, RECORDS, DOCUMENTS, SOUND AND VISUAL RECORDINGS, CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO SUCH ARTEFACTS AND VEHICLES, THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT, AND DISPLAYING THE SAME.

Grants received

2 grants · £56,700 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 Community Fund · £50,000
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £6,700

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £6,7002016-09-13
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £50,0002014-11-27
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.

5 trustees on the board

5y median 1y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

4
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 5Environment/conservation/heritage 5General 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.

Transport 7Professional services 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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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£80k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1095790
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 26 SEPTEMBER 2001 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 24 NOVEMBER 2002 as amended on 25 Aug 2021 as amended on 26 Feb 2023
Companies House
Company number 04294363 · Active
Contact on the register
01304 832042 · enquiries@eastkentrailway.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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