Registered charity · Shrewsbury

Online Transport Archive

10 trustees
Income £36k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website: www.onlinetransportarchive.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Online Transport Archive
Registered: 2004

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£36k£32k
2024£36k£32k
2023£651k£28k

Earlier years

2022£22k£23k
2021£23k£23k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY BUT NOR EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE HISTORY OF RAILWAY, TRAMWAY, ROAD, AIR AND WATER TRANSPORT THROUGH THE COLLECTION AND PRESERVATION OF FILM, COLOUR SLIDES, PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES AND PRINTS, VIDEOTAPE, ELECTRONIC IMAGES IN ALL FORMATS AND OTHER ARTEFACTS.

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.

10 trustees on the board

5.4y median 3y

average tenure

15y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

David Michael Lawrence since 2026
Peter Waller

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 10Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Other 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.

Arts and leisure 12Education 1Other 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£36k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1101785
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20 JUNE 2000 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 20 NOVEMBER 2002. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 30 DECEMBER 2002
Companies House: Company number 04017910 · Active
Contact on the register: 01743244747 · secretary@onlinetransportarchive.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 20th September 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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