Registered charity (CIO) · Gloucestershire
Dean Forest Locomotive Group
- 12 trustees
- Income £117k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Matthew Craig SextonChair · since 2015
- Doug PhelpsTrustee · since 2017
- Hannah Louise KingdonTrustee · since 2024
- Hilary Anne HillTrustee · since 2021
- IAN HattonTrustee · since 2025
- IAN Leslie FawcettTrustee · since 2015
- John Stanley MetherallTrustee · since 2015
- Rauffe Hagen ShirleyTrustee · since 2015
- Stephen HawkinsTrustee · since 2025
- Thomas William Timothy BuffinTrustee · since 2024
- TOM HalfordTrustee · since 2015
- Tracy GarradTrustee · since 2025
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
- Gloucestershire
- Website
- www.deanforestlocogroup.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£117k£77k
- 2024£112k£81k
- 2023£108k£102k
Earlier years
- 2022£80k£95k
- 2021£76k£62k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(1)TO ACQUIRE AND TAKE OVER ALL OR ANY PART OF THE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE PRESENT UNINCORPORATED BODY KNOWN AS THE DEAN FOREST LOCOMOTIVE GROUP (2)TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION, LEARNING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT BY THE ACQUISITION, RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, EXHIBITION AND OPERATION OF HERITAGE RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES, ROLLING STOCK AND EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATED WITH, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE SEVERN & WYE RAILWAY, RAILWAYS IN THE FOREST OF DEAN & GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR TO PRESERVE, OPERATE AND DISPLAY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FORMER GWR STEAM LOCOMOTIVE NO.5541 AND BR STEAM LOCOMOTIVE NO.9681 AT THE DEAN FOREST RAILWAY AND OTHER SUITABLE LOCATIONS.(3)TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND LEARNING BY THE CONSERVATION AND EXHIBITION TO MUSEUM STANDARDS OF DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS OF HISTORIC, TECHNICAL AND ACADEMIC INTEREST ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOCOMOTIVES, ROLLING STOCK AND EQUIPMENT AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.(4)TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND LEARNING BY THE PUBLICATION OF PAMPHLETS, BOOKLETS, PERIODICALS OR BOOKS RELATING TO THE ACQUISITION, MAINTENANCE, REBUILDING AND OPERATION OF THE LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK SO AS TO ENSURE CONTINUITY OF PRESERVATION FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Matthew Craig Sexton Chair since 2015
- Doug Phelps since 2017
- Hannah Louise Kingdon since 2024
- Hilary Anne Hill since 2021
- IAN Hatton since 2025
- IAN Leslie Fawcett since 2015
- John Stanley Metherall since 2015
- Rauffe Hagen Shirley since 2015
- Stephen Hawkins since 2025
- TOM Halford since 2015
- Thomas William Timothy Buffin since 2024
- Tracy Garrad since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Matthew Craig Sexton Chair since 2015
- Doug Phelps since 2017
- IAN Leslie Fawcett since 2015
- John Stanley Metherall since 2015
- Rauffe Hagen Shirley since 2015
- TOM Halford since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Doug Phelps since 2017
- Hannah Louise Kingdon since 2024
- Hilary Anne Hill since 2021
- IAN Leslie Fawcett since 2015
- John Stanley Metherall since 2015
- Rauffe Hagen Shirley since 2015
- Stephen Hawkins since 2025
- TOM Halford since 2015
- Thomas William Timothy Buffin since 2024
- Tracy Garrad since 2025
Portfolio (2)
- Matthew Craig Sexton Chair since 2015
- IAN Hatton since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1164847
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Association Registered 14 Dec 2015 as amended on 11 Apr 2022
- Contact on the register
- 01452526001 · deanforestrailway.locogroup@virginmedia.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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