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Registered charity · Cheshire

Railway Benevolent Institution

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £580k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.railwaybenefitfund.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£580k£669k
  • 2024£556k£811k
  • 2023£416k£840k
Earlier years
  • 2022£583k£826k
  • 2021£405k£633k
Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE AGED OR DISABLED OR NECESSITOUS RAILWAYMEN, THEIR SPOUSES OR CHILDREN, OR OTHER RELATIVES OR PERSONS WHO WERE IMMEDIATELY AND WHOLLY OR PARTLY DEPENDENT UPON THEM.

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.

11 trustees on the board

4.8y median 3y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

3
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 11General Charitable Purposes 11Disability 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Finance 4Arts and leisure 2Other services 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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£580k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

36.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 36.9 in 2021

9 from 9 in 2022
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
206312
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 29/12/1949, RULES AND BYE LAWS ADOPTED 28/5/1951, PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 15 OF ROYAL CHARTER, AMENDMENTS APPROVED BY ORDER OF COUNCIL DATED 13/8/1965 AND 27/10/1993 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME OF THE COMMISSIONERS DATED 28TH MARCH 1994AS AMENDED ON 01 MAR 2018AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 15 SEP 2025
Contact on the register
03452412885 · info@railwaybenefitfund.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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