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Registered charity · North Yorkshire

Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (Holdings) Limited

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £4.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
North Yorkshire
Website
www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (Holdings) Limited
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.2m£3.8m
  • 2024£3.1m£2.9m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2021£608k£552k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC WITH REGARD TO THE RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY:(3.1) RESTORING, MAINTAINING AND OPERATING THE RAILWAY ALONGSIDE A MUSEUM ON LAND FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY THE SKIPTON AND ILKLEY RAILWAY OF 1888, THE YORKSHIRE DALES RAILWAY OF 1902, AND LATTERLY BY BRITISH RAILWAYS, OR PARTS THEREOF;(3.2) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A MUSEUM FOR ITEMS OF HISTORIC RAILWAY INTEREST AND THE PERMANENT DISPLAY AND DEMONSTRATION OF THE MUSEUM'S EXHIBITS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;(3.3) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY PARTICULARLY WITH REFERENCE` TO THE RAILWAYS.

Grants received

2 grants · £46,900 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 Heritage Fund · £41,900
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £41,9002020-08-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002004-08-19
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.

7 trustees on the board

5.8y median 5.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7

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

Professional services 9Hospitality 1Retail and trade 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.9 in 2021

32
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.
110 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.
Qualified
Auditor's opinioniAuditor's opinionThe accounts_qualified flag on the latest filed annual return is True - the auditor qualified their opinion. A register flag, shown as filed.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1116386
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 MAY 1979 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 6 JULY 2006.
Companies House
Company number 01420635 · Active
Contact on the register
01756710614 · office@ebar.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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