## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 January 2024 **To** 31 December 2024
Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Durham Locomotive Preservations Group (DLPG) **Other names charity is known by** N/A
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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|1 Paul Foxton|DeputyChairman|||
|2 Don Brookes|Chairman|||
|3 Christine Foxton|Secretary/Treasurer|||
|4 Malcolm Paul||||
|5 Peter Shields||||
|6 Steven Foxton||||
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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Trust constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Unincorporated Trust How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
The Trustees may appoint any person over the age of 18 years, who is Trustee selection methods willing to act as a Trustee. Subject to paragraph 5 (b) of the constitution, (eg. appointed by, elected by) they may also appoint Trustees to act as officers
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
1. To preserve for the benefit of the public, locomotives, coaches, and other rolling stock for D.L.P.G. which may be of historic interest.
**Summary of the objects of the** 2. To advance education and training for the benefit of the public in **charity set out in its** railway renovation skills, in particular but not exclusively in coach building **governing document** skills.
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Our main objective is to renovate RSH No 77 ‘Norwood’ originally given to our group on long-term loan and then purchased by us. We are looking for sponsorship and grants to overhaul this engine. We have links with several heritage railways, with a special relationship with the National Railway Museum, Shildon. We also renovate other heritage vehicles.
We confirm that the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s Guidance on Public Benefit.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## Main achievements 2024 include:
- 1) continuing to fundraise at local events and via online sales, with the monies going toward the renovation of locomotive RSH No 77 ‘Norwood’.
- 2) Continued renovation of Norwood’s chassis and ongoing training of volunteers in these skills. Further, the boiler for RSH No77 is part way through refurbishment, and it is hoped that restoration will be complete in 2026 and the locomotive will become operational.
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## **Section E Financial review**
Reserves are built up and held until restoration parts can be purchased.
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Christine Foxton **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc) Date** 21/10/2025
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**DURHAM LOCOMOTIVE PRESERVATIONS GROUP (DLPG) 1114642 Receipts and payments accounts** 01/01/2024 31/12/2024 **For the period from To** ~~ee~~
## **CC16a** ~~-~~
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||
|Gift Aid||||**1**|**1,461**||**-**||**-**||**1,461**||**-**||
|Membership||||**62**|**62**||**-**||**-**||**62**||**360**||
|ScrapMoney||||**548**|**548**||**-**||**-**||**548**||**524**||
|Bucket Donations||||**710**|**710**||**-**||**-**||**710**||**51**||
|Donations||||**208**|**208**||**-**||**-**||**208**||**533**||
|Card Sales||||**11**|**11,529**||**-**||**-**||**11,529**||**4,863**||
|Online Sales||||**26**|**26,897**||**-**||**-**||**26,897**||**22,281**||
|Sales||||**6**|**6,927**||**-**||**-**||**6,927**||**6,366**||
|interest||||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Norwood boiler tube fund||||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Boiler Stays||||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Boiler Plate||||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Refund||||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**- 220**||
|Legacy gift||||**19**|**19**||**-**||**-**||**19**||**80,201**||
|Donations - Savings Account||||**180**|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**||**180**||
|Interest - Savings Account||||**1**|**1,161**||**-**||**-**||**1,161**||**488**||
||||||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|||_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**49,701**|**49,701**||**-**||**-**||**49,701**||**115,627**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**49,701**
**-**
**-**
**49,701**
**115,627**
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||
|Boiler||||**21**|**21,567**||**-**||**-**||**21,567**||**-**||
|Miscellaneous||||**180**|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**||**240**||
|Terminal Charges||||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Postage & Stationary||||**91**|**91**||**-**||**-**||**91**||**-**||
|Materials/Tools||||**383**|**383**||**-**||**-**||**383**||**887**||
|Advertising||||**242**|**242**||**-**||**-**||**242**||**-**||
|Work on Norwood||||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**13,287**||
|Transport / Hire Eqipment||||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**720**||
|Sales/ Stock||||**33**|**33,437**||**-**||**-**||**33,437**||**25,915**||
|insurance||||**289**|**289**||**-**||**-**||**289**||**653**||
|Brake Van Parts|||||||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||||||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**_Sub total_ **|||**56,188**|**56,188**||**-**||**-**||**56,188**||**41,703**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**56,188**
**-**
**-**
**56,188**
**41,703**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||||**- 6,487**|**- 6,487**|**- 6,487**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**- 6,487**|**- 6,487**|**73,924**|**73,924**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**87,838**|**87,838**|**87,838**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**87,838**||**13,913**|**13,913**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**_Cash funds this year end_**||**81,351**|**81,351**|**81,351**|**-**|**-**|**- 81,351**|**- 81,351**|**- 81,351**||**87,838**|**87,838**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**||**Details**||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
|||||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**10,721**
**-**
**-**
**70,630**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**81,351**
**-**
**-**
**_Total cash funds_**
Business Current Account
Business Savings Account
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|||account(s))||OK
OK||OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|||||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
|||**Details**||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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|||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~==~~||||||
|||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|Unrestricted
**13,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Stock
~~aq~~||||||
|||||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**||**When due**|
|||**Details**||**liability relates**
**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
21/10/2025
Print Name
Christine Foxton
Signature
Type text here
Type text here
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** DURHAM LOCOMOTIVE PRESERVATIONS GROUP (DLPG) **On accounts for the year** 31/12/2024 **Charity no** 1114642 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-7 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 12 / 2024** .
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect,:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Date:** 21/10/25
**Signed:** P Johnson **Name:** Peter Richard Johnson ~~CP~~ **Relevant professional** Chartered Certified Accountant **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 4 St Aidan’s Crescent Durham DH1 4AP
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**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here details of any** None **items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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