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Registered charity · Redhill

Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £453k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.clan-line.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society Limited
Registered
1975

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£453k£340k
  • 2024£455k£571k
  • 2023£298k£248k
Earlier years
  • 2022£177k£201k
  • 2021£164k£70k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN IN OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS EX SOUTHERN REGION MERCHANT NAVY CLASS LOCOMOTIVE "35028" "CLAN LINE" AS AT THE TIME OF WITHDRAWAL AND TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE PRESERVATION OF STEAM AND OTHER RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT OF HISTOICAL INTEREST AND IN RAILWAYS LOCOMOTIVES ROLLING STOCK AND RAILWAY MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT GENERALLY. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION)

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

5.1y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 9

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 15

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£455k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
266801
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21ST MAY 1973 AND AMENDED 22ND MARCH 1975
Companies House
Company number 01114826 · Active
Contact on the register
07751 613221 · secretary@clan-line.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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