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Registered charity · Uckfield

The Bluebell Railway Trust

The Bluebell Railway Trust is a registered charity (number 292497) based in Uckfield, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £1.5m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £1.5m (2024)
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Who leads it

No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: BRT Trustee Limited.

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
East Sussex, Kent, Surrey, West Sussex
Website
www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/trust (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.5m£1.1m
  • 2023£803k£1.3m
  • 2022£596k£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.8m£1.3m
  • 2020£2.6m£1.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH RAILWAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHOULD FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Grants received

6 grants · £1,517,800 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 · £999,600 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £509,200 (3 grants)
  • Henry Smith Foundation · £9,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002024-08-07
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £272,4002021-03-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £727,2002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002020-08-24
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,2002012-10-09
Board analysis

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.5m 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.

11.8 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.
24 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
292497
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 20TH MAY 1985AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 20 FEB 2018
Contact on the register
01825720800 · vernon.blackburn@bluebell-railway.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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