## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 January 2025 Period start date To 31 December 2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Friends of Ilkley Rail Station (FOIRS)** ## **Charity registration number: 1197227** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To preserve for the public benefit, Ilkley**
**Railway Station, a Grade II Listed mid 19th**
**Century building as a building of**
**architectural and historic interest.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Following the formation of the Ilkley Rail**
**and Bus Board, FOIRS is now committed**
**to creating an Ilkley Transport Hub.**
**The key deliverables are to provide a**
**central Transport Hub that incorporates**
**Trains, Buses, a Coach Drop Off, Taxi**
**Stand, Bicycle and Electric Car Hire. In**
**addition facilities (Pods) are to include**
**Toilets, Tourist Information and a**
**Community Hub (multi purpose**
**use).**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**FOIRS can confirm that our trustees have**
**given due attention to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment |||| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**This year FOIRS held a month long**
**exhibition during August celebrating 160**
**Years of Ilkley Station. This was**
**continuously manned by FOIRS Trustees**
**and Members.**
**The five local School’s children and**
**teachers continue to maintain the Ilkley**
**Station School Planters.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference||| |---|---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20||**Ilkley Rail and Transport Board**
**One of the aims of both FOIRS and The**
**Rail and Bus Board (created by FOIRS) is**
**to create an Integrated Transport Hub for**
**Ilkley.**
**During the year FOIRS has successfully**
**applied for Funds from Ilkley Town**
**Council.**
**These funds have now been used to**
**commission a report from a Firm of**
**Consultants to create a solution for a**
**Transport Hub.**
**The report has now been presented to**
**both WYCA (West Yorkshire Combined**
**Authority) and Bradford Council and is**
**currently being considered for funding.**
**Ilkley Station 160th Birthday**
**Year 2025 is the 160th Birthday for Ilkley**
**Rail Station. During the month of August**
**FOIRS held a very successful “Keeping**
**Track” Exhibition at The Ilkley Manor**
**House. This Exhibition included 5**
**Information Boards depicting the History**
**of Ilkley Station.**
**In addition to the Ilkley Station History a**
**display portraying the results from the**
**Ilkley Bus and Rail Board Transport Hub**
**Consultation was also exhibited along**
**with some Rail 200 material.**| **The Exhibition was very successful with nearly 2,000 people visiting The Manor House during the opening period, (most of whom visited our Exhibition). One of FOIRS Trustees who is also a local Historian held a evening talk with slides and a short film celebrating the 160[th] Ilkley Station Birthday. FOIRS land Adoption FOIRS has adopted an area of land to “green space” near the foot of the steps from the Ilkley Rail Station Footbridge has been extended for an additional 12 months. This is proving to be a difficult project with some unresolved issues regarding boundaries and security of the area. Access to the area is problematic and the issue is further complicated by the extremely small number of FOIRS Members. This makes it difficult to form an active working party. Removal and disposal of the existing rather large trees and other fauna prior to replanting more suitable fauna will be commenced early 2026. Music on The Station - 21 Dec 25 This event is organised by FOIRS and all monies collected are donated to The CandleLighters Charity. This year 2025 we collected over £900.00 (this makes a total of more than £2.500.00 over the three years we have run the event. Performers this year came from Ilkley and Skipton Grammar Schools and Ilkley and other local musicians.** **Xmas Tree** **On a festive note, FOIRS has once again purchased a Xmas Tree at the Annual St Margaret’s Church Xmas Tree Festival.** **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **N/A** Achievements against Para 1.41 |objectives set||| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of this year FOIRS had**
**£5,580.00 In cash assets.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhy they areheld|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A **| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Our source for funds remains to be**
**through application for grants from**
**various sources.**
**This year we also raised a small amount**
**of cash from donations made during the**
**Ilkley Manor House Exhibition.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**We consider our risks are very low.**
**Our main risks relate to our small number**
**of volunteers and their ages. To mitigate**
**this we are always looking to attract new**
**members.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**None**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**with voting members other than its**
**trustees.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**All trustees are volunteers involved with**
**the initial setting up of the charity.**
**New members are agreed by the founding**
**members.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**FOIRS is one of a number of “Friends of**
**Ilkley” groups and regularly participates**
**in the Ilkley Community Network (ICN)**
**monthly meetings. The nature of our**
**charity also requires close liaison with**
**Northern and Network Rail, West**
**Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA),**
**Bradford Council and Ilkley Town**
**Council.**
**FOIRS inaugurated and continues to**
**maintain close links to the Ilkley Rail and**
**Bus Board, our Chair Stephen Thornton**
**is also Chairof this Group. **| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Friends of Ilkley Rail Station| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|FOIRS| Registered charity number 1197227 Charity’s principal address Friends of Ilkley Rail Station, Northern Ilkley Railway, Station Road, Ilkley, LS29 8HF **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Stephen Thornton|Chair/Admin||N/A| ||Robert Hartley|Treasurer/Admin||N/A| ||Charles Scaife|None||N/A| ||Julia Collington|None||N/A| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |**N/A **||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **N/A** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **N/A** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for **N/A** safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser N/A** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** **N/A** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **None** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|S R Thornton|R W Hartley| |---|---|---| ||Stephen Russell Thornton|Robert William Hartley| ||
Chair & Admin|Treasurer & Admin| ||2nd January 2026|| ||2nd January 2026|| **Charity Name No (if any) Friends of Ilkley Rail Station Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01-Jan-25 31-Dec-25 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,534**
**3,000**
**500**
**2,295**
**594**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,923**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,923**
**700**
**86**
**1,951**
**1,054**
**455**
**37**
**60**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,343**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,343**
**5,580**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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1|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,534**
**3,000**
**500**
**2,295**
**594**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,923**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,923**
**700**
**86**
**1,951**
**1,054**
**455**
**37**
**60**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,343**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,343**
**5,580**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,534**
**3,000**
**500**
**2,295**
**594**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,923**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,923**
**700**
**86**
**1,951**
**1,054**
**455**
**37**
**60**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,343**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,343**
**5,580**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Cash Carried Forward from 2024|**3,534**|||||**-**| |Grant from Ilkley Council Transport Hub
Project|**3,000**|||||| |Grant from Bradford Community Chest
Fund|**500**|||||| |Grant from Northern Rail CommunityFund|**2,295**|||||| |Misc Exhibition Donations|**594**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**9,923**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**
|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |Ilkley Manor House - Aug 25 FOIRS
Exhibition|**700**|||||**-**| |Clarke Foley- IlkleyHub Project|**86**|||||**-**| |Aim Studios - FOIRS HistoryBoards|**1,951**|||||**-**| |Aim Studios - Website and Other Fees
2023,24 & 25|**1,054**|||||**-**| |Other Exhibition Expenses|**455**|||||**-**| |St Margarets Parochial Church Council
1131220|**37**|||||**-**| |School Planter Replishment Plants|**60**|||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |Aim Studio - FOIRS Leaflets||||||**285**| |C Cheater - Station Artefacts Copies||||||**544**| |M Hunnebell - Flash Drives(for Storage)||||||**14**| |M Hunnebell - Material for 2025 Manor
House Exhib.|**-**|||||**96**| |M Hunnebell - Anning's -
Super8/Digitisation.|**-**|||||**56**| |St Margarets Parochial Church Council
1131220|**-**|||||**35**| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**4,343**|||||**1,030**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)||||||| |||||||**1,030**| |||||||| |||||**5,580**||**- 1,030**| |||||**-**||**-**
02/01/2026| |||||||| **A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **5,580 - - 5,580 - 1,030** CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 02/01/2026 2 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|R W Hartley
Signature
S R Thornton
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**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**3,243**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,243**
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Stephen R Thornton
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approval| ||S R Thornton|Stephen R Thornton|02-Jan-26| ||R W Hartley|Robert W Hartley|02-Jan-26| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 02/01/2026 3