The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway Company (1983) Limited

The Railway Company exists to operate the heritage railway including restoration and maintenance of railway diesel and steam locomotives, railway carriages, railway wagons, buildings and infrastructure. This is for the benefit, pleasure and education of members and visitors to the railway.

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

In Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Monmouthshire
• Torfaen

Area of benefit in its governing document: Ponypool and Blaenavon in the County of Gwent

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £377,201 and spent £269,055.

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 39%, from £271,584 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £377,201 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 71% of its income in the year to 31 December 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 31 December 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.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Alex Spencer Gourlay
• Christopher BarnesAppointed 7 February 2023
• Gareth RavenhillAppointed 7 June 2026
• Matthew Stephen EllisAppointed 3 November 2026
• Michael AnnenbergAppointed 24 September 2024
• Mr Alex Hinshelwood
• Nathan James RussellAppointed 3 November 2026
• Robert PottsAppointed 25 September 2023
• Shakira MahabirAppointed 23 August 2019

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, 3 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

514809

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

10 February 1984

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31 OCTOBER 1983, AMENDED 31/5/98

Company number

01766049This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.pontypool-and-blaenavon.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Torfaen

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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

• OpenCouncil: Torfaen Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Torfaen's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen