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Registered charity · Diss

Bressingham Steam Preservation Company Limited

Bressingham Steam Preservation Company Limited is a registered charity (number 266374) based in Diss, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Christopher Richard Leah since 2007. Latest income £1.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Bressingham Steam Museum Trust, Bressingham Steam Museum Trust and Gardens (Charity Commission)

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Norfolk
Website
www.bressingham.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bressingham Steam Preservation Company Limited
Registered
1973

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.0m£1.0m
  • 2023£829k£903k
Earlier years
  • 2022£932k£846k
  • 2021£875k£595k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) TO PROMOTE THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY OF LIVE STEAM TRANSPORTATION ENGINES AND ALLIED RELICS OF HISTORICAL AND TECHNICAL INTEREST AND (II) TO MAINTAIN ENCOURAGE AND CONTINUE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LIVE STEAM MUSEUM AT BRESSINGHAM IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK.

Grants received

4 grants · £703,000 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

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £1,0002024-12-10
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £100,0002021-02-12
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £55,0002020-05-11
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £547,0002002-03-07
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.

12.6y median 12y
average tenure
19y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7Other 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.

Arts and leisure 7Retail and trade 3Transport 3

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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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£1.0m 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.

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

22 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
266374
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22ND AUGUST 1973 as amended on 21 Apr 2021 as amended on 21 Mar 2021 as amended on 02 Jul 2022
Companies House
Company number 01130628 · Active
Contact on the register
01223515746 · info@bressingham.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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