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Registered charity · Wigan

The Tramcar Sponsorship Organisation

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £55k (2025)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£55k£157k
  • 2024£69k£62k
  • 2023£42k£18k
Earlier years
  • 2022£35k£39k
  • 2021£42k£66k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ACQUIRE, RESTORE, REPAIR AND HOUSE TRAMCARS AND TRAMCAR BODIES, TRAMCAR TRUCKS AND TRAMWAY EQUIPMENT AND TO TRANSFER THE SAME TO THE TRAMWAY MUSEUM SOCIETY (WHICH EXPRESSION SHALL INCLUDE ANY BODY OR ORGANISATION WHICH FOR THE TIME BEING SHALL BE CARRYING ON SUBSTANTIALLY THE WORK AND HOLDING SUBSTANTIALLY THE ASSETS OF THE TRAMWAY MUSEUM SOCIETY) FOR PRESERVATION AND EXHIBITION.

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.

6 trustees on the board

10y median 12y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Environment/conservation/heritage 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 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 3Retail and trade 1

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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£55k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
518466
Status
Registered
Governing document
RULES ADOPTED 26/10/1980AS AMENDED ON 13/01/1987AS AMENDED ON 24/10/1987AS AMENDED ON 06/07/1996AS AMENDED ON 28/06/2003AS AMENDED ON 19/07/2014 as amended on 24 Nov 2023
Contact on the register
01257426808 · brent.higham@outlook.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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