Registered charity (CIO) · Kent

The Folkestone Leas Lift Company CIO

10 trustees
Income £534k (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: Kent
Website: www.leaslift.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2022

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£534k£133k
2024£630k£74k
2023£316k£49k

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. TO RESTORE, PRESERVE, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE THE HISTORIC LEAS LIFT AND ITS ASSOCIATED ROLLING STOCK, BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENSURE THAT THE WATER POWERED CLIFF SIDE FUNICULAR RAILWAY CONTINUES TO OPERATE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND VISITORS TO FOLKESTONE AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HISTORIC LEAS LIFT.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.8y median 3.5y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

Adam Jay Coleman since 2023
Daniel Ward Hulme since 2022

company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Education/training 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1

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

Other services 10Arts and leisure 8Dormant 5

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 3 years.

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£534k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

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.

21.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 39.2 in 2023

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.

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1197324
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 04 Jan 2022 as amended on 27 Nov 2024
Contact on the register: 01303761892 · hello@leaslift.co.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 13th 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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