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Registered charity · Southwold

Southwold Railway Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £26k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Suffolk
Website
www.southwoldrailway.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Southwold Railway Trust
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£26k£36k
  • 2024£75k£25k
  • 2023£100k£23k
Earlier years
  • 2022£103k£85k
  • 2021£86k£18k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(I) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE ACQUISITION, RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, CONSTRUCTION OR RECONSTRUCTION AND EXHIBITION OF TRACK, RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE, CARRIAGES, ROLLING STOCK, EQUIPMENT, ARTEFACTS, DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH APPROPRIATE LAND, BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES AND, IN PARTICULAR, THOSE OF THE SOUTHWOLD RAILWAY AND TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE EXHIBITION OF SUCH ITEMS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT(II) TO UNDERTAKE AND FACILITATE HISTORICAL, SCIENTIFIC, SOCIAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF RESEARCH, TO CATALOGUE, COLLECT, COLLATE AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION RELATING THERETO BY PUBLISHING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS, BOOKS, PICTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS, FILMS, VIDEO RECORDINGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES RELATING TO THESE OBJECTS.

Grants received

1 grant · £2,000 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.

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Most recent

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

10y median 10y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

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 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6Recreation 1Religious Activities 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 7Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£26k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1117041
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2 AUGUST 2006
Companies House
Company number 05894122 · Active
Contact on the register
07914519096 · mail@southwoldrailway.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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