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Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (Holdings) Limited

Registered charity 1116386 Registered since 2006

Operates: North Yorkshire

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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

12.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 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.

Professional services 2Hospitality 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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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk
Emailoffice@ebar.org.uk
Phone01756710614
AddressBOLTON ABBEY RAILWAY STATION, BOLTON ABBEY, SKIPTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE, BD23 6AF

Finances

£4,236,776 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£607,812£552,050
2022£1,171,207£1,081,405
2023£1,596,769£1,553,945
2024£3,087,356£2,877,360
2025£4,236,776£3,802,753

What it does

What

Education/trainingEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Advocacy/advice/information

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.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 MAY 1979 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 6 JULY 2006.

Trustees (7)

7trustees
56median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (Holdings) Limited · 01420635 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 17/05/1979

4 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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