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Registered charity · Tenterden

The Kent and East Sussex Railway Company Limited

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Where
East Sussex, Kent
Website
www.kesr.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Kent and East Sussex Railway Company Limited
Registered
1971

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.7m£2.6m
  • 2024£2.6m£2.7m
  • 2023£2.5m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.0m£2.4m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PRESERVE, RESTORE AND OPERATE ANY PART OR PARTS OF THE RAILWAY EXTENDING FROM ROBERTSBRIDGE IN SUSSEX TO TENTERDEN IN KENT AS A PUBLIC EXHIBITION AND MUSEUM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNICAL, HISTORICAL AND GENERAL EDUCATION AND FOR THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION DISPLAY AND DEMONSTRATION OF STEAM AND OTHER RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES, ROLLING STOCK EQUIPMENT AND RELICS OF HISTORICAL OPERATIONAL AND GENERAL INTEREST AND EDUCATIONAL VALUE.

Grants received

4 grants · £590,508 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £552,200 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £13,308

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £250,7002021-03-08
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £25,0002021-02-26
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £301,5002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £13,3082005-03-24
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.

8 trustees on the board

6.1y median 8y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Transport 13Education 2Other services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£2.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

6.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.2 in 2020

48 from 26 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
262481
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/04/1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/04/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/06/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/02/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/08/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/10/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/12/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/10/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/10/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 NOV 2018 as amended on 16 Nov 2019
Companies House
Company number 01007871 · Active
Contact on the register
01580 765155 · enquiries@kesr.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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