Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
All male board: -3

Large volunteers +5

Overall GiG Score: 5

VOLK'S ELECTRIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION

Helps conserve the Volk's Electric Railway and educates the public about the technology and history. Encourages participation in maintaining, operating and improving this historic transport asset.Acquires and maintains for the benefit of the public historical artefacts linked in some way to the railway and its founder Magnus Volk.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
05/04/23	£9,380	£1,821	£7,559	40
05/04/22	£4,645	£2,454	£2,191	40
05/04/21	£21,145	£2,515	£18,630	40

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

http://volkselectricrailway.co.uk

tim.steven@hotmail.com

07970049921

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides other finance
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

BARRIE MCFARLANE Appointed: 2019

DAVID CECIL COWSTICK Appointed: 2019

MICHAEL JOHN MILLS (Chair) Appointed: 2021

PHILIP HAMERTON Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeships: THE SHOREHAM SOCIETY, BRIGHTON TRAM 53 SOCIETY, THE FRIENDS OF THE KEEP ARCHIVES,

TIMOTHY STEVEN Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/12/2019, number: 1186970

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

8 OAK HALL PARK
BURGESS HILL
RH15 0BX

Objectives

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE VOLK'S ELECTRIC RAILWAY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND THROUGH THE PROMOTION, TRAINING AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF VOLUNTARY WORK IN SUPPORT OF THE VOLK'S ELECTRIC RAILWAY.(2) TO ACQUIRE, PRESERVE AND RESTORE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ITEMS OF HISTORICAL, ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC VALUE IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORK OF MAGNUS VOLK OF BRIGHTON AND HIS INVENTIONS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE OF THE VOLK'S ELECTRIC RAILWAY AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY, SOCIAL CONTEXT AND TECHNOLOGY OF HISTORIC TRANSPORT IN GENERAL.

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