Registered charity (CIO) · Smethwick
The Gelert Trust
- 11 trustees
- Income £1k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Andrew GoodwinTrustee · since 2017
- David AllanTrustee · since 2017
- Graham FarrTrustee · since 2017
- John KerrTrustee · since 2017
- Lewis DittrichTrustee · since 2017
- Mark SealeTrustee · since 2018
- Martyn OwenTrustee · since 2017
- Myles JonesTrustee · since 2021
- Neil EvansTrustee · since 2017
- Nigel WatkinsonTrustee · since 2017
- Robert MenziesTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- gelert-trust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1k£40
- 2024£1k£60
- 2023£2k£60
Earlier years
- 2022£910£60
- 2021£880£0
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1.TO HOLD AND PRESERVE HISTORIC NARROW GAUGE STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AND RELATED EQUIPMENT, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE LOCOMOTIVE ÔGELERTÖ (BAGNALL WORKS NUMBER 3050 OF 1953) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL SUCH ITEMS.2.TO PRESERVE MAINTAIN OPERATE DISPLAY AND EXHIBIT THE TRUSTÆS ARTEFACTS TO PROMOTE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION, APPRECIATION, INTEREST AND UNDERSTANDING OF NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS, STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AND RELATED EQUIPMENT.3.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PRESERVING AND PROVIDING INSTRUCTION IN THE TRADITIONAL OPERATIONAL AND ENGINEERING SKILLS INVOLVED IN RUNNING AND MAINTAINING IN SERVICE NARROW GAUGE STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AND ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT, AND BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN THOSE ACTIVITIES.
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Andrew Goodwin since 2017
- David Allan since 2017
- Graham Farr since 2017
- John Kerr since 2017
- Lewis Dittrich since 2017
- Martyn Owen since 2017
- Mark Seale since 2018
- Myles Jones since 2021
- Neil Evans since 2017
- Nigel Watkinson since 2017
- Robert Menzies since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Goodwin since 2017
- David Allan since 2017
- Graham Farr since 2017
- John Kerr since 2017
- Lewis Dittrich since 2017
- Martyn Owen since 2017
- Mark Seale since 2018
- Neil Evans since 2017
- Nigel Watkinson since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Andrew Goodwin since 2017
- David Allan since 2017
- Graham Farr since 2017
- John Kerr since 2017
- Lewis Dittrich since 2017
- Martyn Owen since 2017
- Mark Seale since 2018
- Myles Jones since 2021
- Neil Evans since 2017
- Nigel Watkinson since 2017
- Robert Menzies since 2022
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
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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
- 1171674
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 17 Feb 2017
- Contact on the register
- 01214291017
- 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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