Glyn Valley Tramway Trust

Conservation, education, training and research associated with the former Glyn Valley Tramway and the communities it served. Restoration of the Tramway as a working heritage attraction which will provide training opportunities and educational facilities.

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

In Wales

• Wrexham

Area of benefit in its governing document: In Particular Chirk and the Ceiriog Velley

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 May 2025, it had income of £7,848 and spent £7,875.

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

Up 339%, from £1,789 in the year to 31 May 2021 to £7,848 in the year to 31 May 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 100% of its income in the year to 31 May 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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 31 May 2024: 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £4,582, awarded in 2012.

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.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Mark EdlingtonChairAppointed 6 May 2022
• Andrew Ross ChristieAppointed 6 May 2022
• Ben Williams
• Councillor Terry Evans
• David Raymond PearsonAppointed 6 May 2022
• Gillian Pierce
• John HolidayAppointed 9 February 2018
• Sarah Margaret AppletonAppointed 26 August 2013
• Simon CloughAppointed 6 May 2022
• William Appleton

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, 1 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

1121437

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

31 October 2007

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/04/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21/01/2011

Company number

06240369This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.glynvalleytramwaytrust.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Wrexham

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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