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Registered charity · Somerset

West Somerset Railway Heritage Trust LTD

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.0m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.wssrt.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
West Somerset Railway Heritage Trust LTD
Registered
1973

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.0m£78k
  • 2023£25k£47k
  • 2022£161k£72k
Earlier years
  • 2021£260k£52k
  • 2020£100k£111k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

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

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RAILWAY LINES, EQUIPMENT AND BUILDINGS AND THEIR HERITAGE IN PARTICULAR BY: (1) ESTABLISHING, MANAGING AND OPERATING RAILWAY MUSEUMS; (2) DELIVERING EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND TALKS TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, INCLUDING TO SCHOOL GROUPS, STUDENTS AND FAMILIES; AND (3) THE RESTORATION AND MANAGEMENT OF HISTORIC CARRIAGES AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY AND OTHER ROLLING STOCK AND RELATED ARTEFACTS FOR USE ON THE WEST SOMERSET RAILWAY OR FOR DISPLAY AND INTERPRETATION

Grants received

5 grants · £948,010 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 · £879,310 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £68,700 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £13,1002021-03-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,3102021-03-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £864,9002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £28,7002020-08-10
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £40,0002018-07-11
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.

9 trustees on the board

5y median 5.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9Amateur Sport 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 9Transport 4Education 2

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 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.0m 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.

32.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

0
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
265564
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/11/1972AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/12/1972NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25/05/2014AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28/07/2014 AS AMENDED ON 12 JAN 2021AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 AUG 2021
Companies House
Company number 01079916 · Active
Contact on the register
01823-433856 · info@wssrt.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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