Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 9

No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
All male board: -3

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 4

MID-SUFFOLK LIGHT RAILWAY COMPANY

To advance the education of the public with regard to a history of Suffolk and the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway in particular by maintenance of a museum and by restoring and operating a demonstration railway, operations, equipment and engineering crafts.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely male
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
30/09/22	£131	£94	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	95
30/09/21	£131	£94	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	119
30/09/20	£88	£89	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	126
30/09/19	£125	£177	£-53	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	122
30/09/18	£192	£97	£96	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	92
30/09/17	£113	£102	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/16	£174	£159	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/15	£81	£70	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/14	£90	£76	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/13	£52	£72	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/12	£85	£83	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/11	£62	£48	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/10	£44	£39	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/09	£48	£51	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/08	£52	£51	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/07	£45	£44	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/06?	£47	£48	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£47	£55	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£43	£22	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 27 years

www.mslr.org.uk

secretary@mslr.org.uk

01473890622

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Suffolk,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
95 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
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Developing a resource for investigations into the penetrance of disease-causing genomic variants
£4,696	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=75844
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Speeding-up genetic neurodegenerative disease research through sequencing standardisation, cross-border patient recruitment and new geographically-diverse datasets.
£150,270	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10030310
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Decentralising precision medicine patient recruitment and clinical trial research to accelerate drug development
£68,404	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10034737
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum, Brockford
£64,200	18/01/2016	People in the Restoration Shed: Opportunities for heritage restoration and social engagement in rural Suffolk

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 66-84

DAVID MICHAEL CLAYTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

JOHN DOUGLAS REEVE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

CHRISTOPHER JAMES BADDELEY Appointed: 2003, Occupation: Retired

DAVID JOHN BATES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

JOHN DAVID PRICE Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired

JOHN ELWIN HOLMES Appointed: 2007, Occupation: None

WAYNE STEVEN WICKS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Carpenter

IAN MEIGH Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: FOXHALL CENTRE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/07/1997, number: 1063635
Registered at Companies House on 02/09/1996, number: 03244631

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; all on time

Main office

OAKWOOD
STONE STREET
CROWFIELD
IPSWICH
IP6 9TA

Objectives

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC WITH REGARD TO A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK, AND THE MID-SUFFOLK LIGHT RAILWAY IN PARTICULAR BY COLLECTING, PRESERVING, INTERPRETING AND DOCUMENTING MATERIAL EVIDENCE AND ASSOCIATED INFORMATION BY THE MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM FOR ITEMS OF HISTORIC RAILWAY INTEREST, AND BY THE RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF A DEMONSTRATION RAILWAY AND THE DISPLAY AND DEMONSTRATION OF RAILWAY EQUIPMENT, OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING CRAFTS AND IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTIVE THE COMPANY WILL BE VESTED WITH THE POWERS OF OPERATION OF THE MID-SUFFOLK LIGHT RAILWAY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SUFFOLK

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