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Registered charity (CIO) · Marlborough

Combe Rail

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £886 (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Devon
Website
www.combe-rail.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£886£871
  • 2024£1k£2k
  • 2023£2k£5k
Earlier years
  • 2022£4k£1k
  • 2021£5k£7k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HERITAGE OF THE IFRACOMBE TO BARNSTAPLE RAILWAY BY RESTORING, MAINTAINING AND OPERATING THE RAILWAY LINE.”(2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE RAILWAY AND ITS CONNECTIONS WITH THE LOCALITIES THROUGH WHICH IT RAN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PRESERVATION AND DISPLAY OF HISTORICAL ARTEFACTS, RELICS ANDDOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH THE RAILWAY AND CARRYING OUT RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY ANDOPERATION OF THE RAILWAY AND THE STUDY OF ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE LOCAL AREA DURING THETIME IT RAN, IN PARTICULAR THE HOLIDAY TRAFFIC AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCHRESEARCH AND STUDY.(3) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFAREFOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCHFACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP ORSOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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.

6 trustees on the board

6.5y median 7.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6Recreation 6

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

Education 3Business services 1Dormant 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£886 latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1164083
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 23 Oct 2015
Contact on the register
07899967221 · info@combe-rail.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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