Ffestiniog Railway Society

The Society's objects are to advance the education of the public through conservationof the Ffestiniog Railway for the public benefit and through the promotion and encouragement of voluntary work in support of the Ffestiniog Railway.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 September 2025, it had income of £424,760 and spent £803,553.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 33%, from £635,257 in the year to 30 September 2021 to £424,760 in the year to 30 September 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 189% of its income in the year to 30 September 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 30 September 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

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No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Graham ColeChair
• Anthony Peter DeighanAppointed 3 May 2025
• Barnabas Webster FrithAppointed 4 May 2024
• Catherine Marie KnowlesAppointed 30 April 2022
• Graham Paul Bond
• James Joseph LeoAppointed 3 May 2025
• Lyn Gore Graham-TaylorAppointed 4 July 2020
• Nigel Clifford SmithAppointed 2 May 2015
• Philip James Hawkins JP
• Roger David BentleyAppointed 29 April 2023
• Terence David NewhouseAppointed 3 May 2025

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1064178

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

29 August 1997

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24 DECEMBER 1954. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND CHANGE OF NAME DATED 16 MAY 1997 as amended on 02 May 2026

Company number

00542449This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.ffestiniograilway.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Gwynedd

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Gwynedd Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Gwynedd's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Bangor Conwy Môn