Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 7

Reasonable growth: +1
Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
All male board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 6

STAFFORDSHIRE NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY LTD

Promoting the education of the public in the history of the Narrow Gauge Railway and General Transport Heritage of the United Kingdom, with special emphasis to the Staffordshire area, by the creation and operation of a narrow gauge railway.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£58	£73	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	29
31/03/22		£68	£67	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/21		£46	£36	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	28
31/03/20		£62	£51	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	27
31/03/19		£57	£57	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26
31/03/18		£66	£46	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£68	£49	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£67	£57	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£75	£74	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£68	£51	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£81	£55	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£89	£41	£48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£45	£48	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£45	£56	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£45	£42	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£99	£36	£62	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£48	£29	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£50	£33	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£54	£31	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£45	£31	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 31 years
(36 years as a company)

www.amertonrailway.co.uk

enquiries@amertonrailway.co.uk

01889271337

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Staffordshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
29 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£100,000	22/10/2021	To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further funding in order to be able to operate on a viable and sustainable basis by 31 March 2022.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-77

GRAHAM MARTIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

KRIS JARED DOUGLAS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Systems Engineer

LAWRENCE EDWIN HODGKINSON, Occupation: Retired

PETER JAMES CALVERT Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired

THOMAS EIVERS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Graphic Designer, Other trusteeship: STOKE ON TRENT UNIT 321 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/12/1992, number: 1015635
Registered at Companies House on 15/07/1987, number: 02147443

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR13: 1 days late, AR12: 6 days late, AR11: 66 days late, AR10: 99 days late, AR09: 55 days late, AR06: 73 days late, AR05: 11 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from HAMPSHIRE NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY TRUST on 23/06/2020

Main office

Amerton Railway
Amerton
Stowe-by-Chartley
STAFFORD
ST18 0LA

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF THE NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY AND GENERAL TRANSPORT HERITAGE, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS TO THE STAFFORDSHIRE AREA, BY THE CREATION AND OPERATION OF NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS, TRAMWAYS OR OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

STAFFORDSHIRE

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