Registered charity · Oxfordshire
The Great Western Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £413k (2025)
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
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1984
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£413k£136k
- 2024£38k£79k
- 2023£70k£140k
Earlier years
- 2022£32k£43k
- 2021£24k£70k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE GREAT WESTERN SOCIETY LIMITED AND IN PATICULAR (I) TO MAINTAIN AND SUPPORT THE RAILWAY CENTRE AND THE STATIC AND WORKING MUSEUM MAINTAINED BY THE SOCIETY AT DIDCOT OR ELSEWHERE BY THE PROVISION OF OBJECTS FOR DISPLAY AND USE AND BY THE PAYMENT OF APPLICATION OF MONEY (II) TO ASSIST IN THE VOLUNTARY WORK ON THE RESTORATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ITEMS OF HISTORIC AND RAILWAY INTEREST AT THE DIDCOT RAILWAY CENTRE AND ELSEWHERE AND THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES UPON AND ORGANISATION OF EDUCATIONAL VISITS TO THE SOCIETY'S PREMISES.
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
- Peter Terry Jones OBE Chair since 2019
- Anthony Patrick Elliott since 2012
- Matthew Searle since 2022
- Peter Anthony Rance since 1984
- Professor George Kenneth Freeman MD Frcgp since 2021
- Roger William Orchard since 2018
- Stephen James Cooper since 2009
Trustees past 6 years
- Peter Terry Jones OBE Chair since 2019
- Anthony Patrick Elliott since 2012
- Peter Anthony Rance since 1984
- Roger William Orchard since 2018
- Stephen James Cooper since 2009
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Anthony Patrick Elliott since 2012
- Matthew Searle since 2022
- Peter Anthony Rance since 1984
- Professor George Kenneth Freeman MD Frcgp since 2021
- Roger William Orchard since 2018
- Stephen James Cooper since 2009
Portfolio (1)
- Peter Terry Jones OBE Chair since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 289008
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 6TH MARCH 1984 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 13 DECEMBER 2003
- Contact on the register
- 01235 817200 · info@didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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