The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society Limited

Registered charity 1136853 Registered since 2010

Operates: Bradford City

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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.

11 trustees on the board

4.8y median 4.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11

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 10Retail and trade 5Transport 4

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

19.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 34.5 in 2020

21 from 34 in 2020
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.

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.

Related organisations

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.kwvr.co.uk
Emailadmin@kwvr.co.uk
Phone01535645214
AddressTHE RAILWAY STATION, HAWORTH, NEAR KEIGHLEY, WEST YORKSHIRE, BD22 8NJ

Finances

£4,238,546 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£1,557,659£1,607,802
2021£2,237,446£1,867,431
2022£2,494,098£2,358,717
2023£3,448,459£3,149,627
2024£4,238,546£3,685,726

What it does

What

Education/trainingEnvironment/conservation/heritageEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Other FinanceProvides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECT (THE "OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:3.1.1 THE PRESERVATION, OPERATION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF SUCH OF THE STRUCTURES, BUILDINGS, PLANT, LOCOMOTIVES, ROLLING STOCK, RAILWAY TRACK AND EQUIPMENT ON OR ADJACENT TO OR CONNECTED WITH THE RAILWAY LINE BETWEEN KEIGHLEY & OXENHOPE, WEST YORKSHIRE (THE "KEIGHLEY & WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY") AS ARE OF HISTORIC, CULTURAL, ARCHITECTURAL, CONSTRUCTIONAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST OR EXHIBIT CRAFTMANSHIP WORTHY OF PRESERVATION.3.1.2 THE PRESERVATION OF ARCHIVES, HISTORICAL RECORDS AND ARTIFACTS RELATING TO THE KEIGHLEY & WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY.3.1.3 THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE OPERATION OF HERITAGE LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK ON THE KEIGHLEY & WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY.3.1.4 OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE KEIGHLEY & WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 JANUARY 2010

Trustees (11)

11trustees
56median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society Limited · 07135945 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 26/01/2010

1 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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