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Registered charity (CIO) · Derbyshire

Historical Model Railway Society

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £85k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.hmrs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£85k£102k
  • 2023£80k£92k
  • 2022£131k£80k
Earlier years
  • 2021£128k£73k
  • 2020£123k£68k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

1) THE STUDY RECORDING AND PRESERVATION, FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, OF INFORMATION AND ILLUSTRATIVE AND OTHER MATERIAL RELATING TO ALL RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE BRITISH RAILWAY INDUSTRY;2) TO ARRANGE THAT SUCH MATERIAL IS AVAILABLE FOR REFERENCE AND EXCHANGE AND TO ENCOURAGE ITS PUBLICATION FOR THE USE AND EDUCATION BOTH OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY AND OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL;3) THE CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND PRESERVATION AND PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF MODELS OF THOSE RAILWAYS AND THEIR EQUIPMENT FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC;4) TO ARRANGE MEETINGS, VISITS, LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE AIMS.

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.

13 trustees on the board

4.2y median 2y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

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 13Environment/conservation/heritage 13Other Charitable Purposes 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

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£85k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1166144
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 21 Mar 2016 as amended on 01 Aug 2019 as amended on 02 Aug 2019 as amended on 04 Aug 2019 as amended on 22 Oct 2020 as amended on 12 Oct 2021 as amended on 05 Oct 2024
Contact on the register
01773745959 · secretary@hmrs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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