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Registered charity · Peterborough

Nene Valley Railway

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.nvr.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Nene Valley Railway Limited
Registered
1972

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2021£734k£876k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION OF RAILWAY LINES, ENGINES, ROLLING STOCK AND EQUIPMENT AND ITEMS OF GENERAL RAILWAY INTEREST OF ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL HISTORIC OR SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE AND EDUCATIVE VALUE, AND TO EXHIBIT TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC INTERESTED IN ENGINES OWNED BY THE ASSOCIATION ANY ENGINES, ROLLING STOCK, EQUIPMENT AND ITEMS AS AFORESAID BY MEANS OF TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS AND TO DEMONSTRATE AND ASSIST IN DEMONSTRATING TO SUCH PERSONS THE WORKINGS AND OPERATION OF ANY SUCH ENGINES, ROLLING STOCK AND ITEMS BY MEANS OF STATIC OR MOBILE DISPLAYS.

Grants received

11 grants · £304,836 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 · £267,768 (8 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £30,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £7,068

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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.

7 trustees on the board

1.9y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
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 7Education/training 7Environment/conservation/heritage 6Animals 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.

Arts and leisure 7Retail and trade 3Health and social care 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£1.1m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 24.3 in 2021

12 from 17 in 2021
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
263617
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/01/1972AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/06/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/09/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/09/1997NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 08/04/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/09/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/10/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 OCT 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 NOV 2021 as amended on 10 Jun 2023 as amended on 19 Sept 2024 as amended on 01 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 01038056 · Active
Contact on the register
01780784444 · accounts@nvr.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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