## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 Dec 2023 **To** 30 Nov 2024
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Old Kiln Light Railway **Other names charity is known by** OKLR **Registered charity number (if any)** 1201028
**Charity's principal address** near to Rural Life Living Museum
Tilford FARNHAM **Postcode GU10 2DL**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||John Cooksley|||Rural Life LivingMuseum|
||Owen Harriss||||
||Ian Poyner||||
||James Poyner||||
||Peter Smith||||
||||||
**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|---|---|
|N/A||
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|N/A|||
||||
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
N/A
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Constitution
Association Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)
March **2012**
**TAR**
1
Election by Members Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
For the public benefit, to advance education in the history and significance of industrial, rural passenger and military light narrow-gauge railways including by, but not limited to, preserving, restoring, exhibiting, and operating industrial, rural passenger and military narrow-gauge railway locomotives and rolling stock and by making accessible other similar items of historical interest.
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
The railway operated over 70 days, offering rides on the railway and discussion of the history and importance of the railways in the local region and nationally. Several school visits were also conducted.
The Mills Wood Station display boards were updated with more information on all the rolling stock.
A quarterly newsletter was instigated to widen the reach of public that we interact with.
Tours of the railway sheds are available, but on a limited basis due to the health and safety risks that need to be managed.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** health and safety risks that need to be managed. **public benefit in relation to these objects (include within** All activities and expenditure have been conducted with due regard to the **this section the statutory** objectives of the OKLR Charity as stated above. **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)**
No grants or investments are made by OKLR.
Designated funds are kept in a Treasurer’s Account earning interest, albeit reducing over the year as the Bank of England reduced its rates.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
March **2012**
**TAR**
3
Section D Achievements and performance
Operating over 70 public running days, reaching over nearly 6,000 **Summary of the main** passengers. **achievements of the charity during the year** Outreach to local schools.
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
## **Section E Financial review**
A reserve of £10,000 is kept to ensure that insurances and essential **Brief statement of the** maintenance could continue should the railway not be able to operate for **charity’s policy on reserves** up to 12 months.
**Details of any funds materially** None. **in deficit**
## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|_Ian Poyner_|_Owen Harris_|
|---|---|---|
||Ian Keith Poyner|Owen Harriss|
||
Trustee|Trustee|
||29 September, 2025||
||29 September, 2025||
March **2012**
**TAR**
5
|**Old Kiln Light Railway**|**Old Kiln Light Railway**||**120128**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts and payments accounts**||||
|**For the period**
**from**|01-Dec-23|**To**|30-Nov-24|
**CC16a**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**22,603**
**1,930**
**237**
**7,466**
**261**
**-**
**-**
**32,497**
**5,250**
**-**
**5,250**
**37,747**
**5,645**
**3,185**
**779**
**2,401**
**3,505**
**1,296**
**510**
**-**
**-**
**17,321**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,321**
**20,426**
**-**
**39,212**
**59,638**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Fares andgeneral donations|**22,603**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**22,603**
**1,930**
**237**
**7,466**
**261**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,497**|**21,000**
**1,725**
**729**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|Membershipsubscriptions|**1,930**|||||
|Donations - designated for Pamela|**237**|||||
|Runningfor Museum|**7,466**|||||
|Interest Deposit Account|**261**|||||
|||||||
||**-**|||||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**32,497**||||**23,454**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
|Sale oftwoHayling coaches|**5,250**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,250**
**-**
**5,250**|**-**
**-**|
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_**|**5,250**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||**-**|**37,747**|**23,454**|
|||||||
|
Operations runningcosts|**5,645**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,645**
**3,185**
**779**
**2,401**
**3,505**
**1,296**
**510**
**-**
**-**
**17,321**|**4,799**
**2,307**
**515**
**2,309**
**797**
**-**
**214**
**-**
**-**|
|Locomotive maintenance|**3,185**|||||
|Utilities|**779**|||||
|Public LiabilityInsurance|**2,401**|||||
|Plant & Equipment|**3,505**|||||
|Buildings|**1,296**|||||
|Printing,Stationery,web,HRA|**510**|||||
||**-**|||||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**17,321**||||**10,941**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||||||
|**,**|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||**17,321**||
||||**-**||**10,941**|
|||||||
||**20,426**||
**-**|**20,426**|**12,513**|
||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**
**39,212**|**-**
**26,699**|
||**39,212**|||||
||**59,638**||
**-**|**59,638**|**39,212**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
29/09/2025
1
## **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**|Signature
Track and infrastructure
**Details**
**Details**
Elouise steam locomotive
Pamela steam locomotive
Champion 36 diesel loco
Simplex 8981 diesel
Amey loco
Current account
Deposit account - designated Pamela
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**49,376**
**-**
**10,262**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**59,638**
**TRUE**
OK
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
119,276
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**150,000**|
||||**50,000**|
||||**7,000**|
||||**6,000**|
||||**1,000**|
||||**40,000**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
|||||
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
29/09/2025
2
##
##
|SectionA
l|ndependent Examiner's Report||
|---|---|---|
|Reportto thetrustees|OId Kiln Light Railway||
|Onaccountsforthe year|30November2Q24|Charityno ItzOtOzA|
|ended||(ifany)|
|Setout onpages|1-?||
||Ireport to the trusteesonmy examination of the accounts of the above
charity("the Trust") for theyearended30November2424|
|---|---|
|Responsibilitiesand|Asthecharity's trustees, youareresponsible forthepreparationofthe|
|basisof report|accountsinaccordance withtherequirementsofthe CharitiesAcl.2A11|
||("theAcf).|
|Signed:|28September2025|
|---|---|
|Name:|SimonJB Parton|
|Relevantprofessional|nla|
|qualification(s)or body||
|(if any):||
|Address:|Birch Cottage, Southview Road, Headtey Down GU35 8HX|