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Registered charity · Warwickshire

The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Rheilffyrdd Ffestiniog AC Eryri)

The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Rheilffyrdd Ffestiniog AC Eryri) is a registered charity (number 239904) based in Warwickshire, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Dr John Denys Charles Anstice Prideaux CBE since 2015. Latest income £12m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Ffestiniog Railway Trust, Festiniog Railway Trust, Ymddiriedolaeth Rheilffordd Ffestiniog, Welsh Highland Railway Trust, Ymddiriedolaeth Rheiffordd Eryri (Charity Commission)

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Gwynedd
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£12m
  • 2024£13m£13m
  • 2023£13m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.2m£7.9m
  • 2021£6.6m£5.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH RAILWAYS AND IN PARTICULAR WITH THE FESTINIOG RAILWAY COMPANY AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT. (OR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE DEED OF 10TH NOVEMBER 1964)

Grants received

4 grants · £5,008,100 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £5,008,100 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002020-07-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £3,919,3002019-11-27
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £463,8002017-02-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £375,0001998-06-24
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.

5.8y median 5.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

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.

Environment/conservation/heritage 5Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 2

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

Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1Construction 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£12.9m latest income
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.

9.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 120.0 in 2020

140 from 116 in 2020
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
239904
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 10 NOVEMBER 1964, 24 MAY 1965 30/09/1998AND SCHEME DATED 17/06/1998AS AMENDED ON 05/10/2012AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 15 APR 2016 as amended on 21 Feb 2025
Contact on the register
01926 811938 · trustsecretary@ffwhr.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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