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Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway Association Limited

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1016237BuckinghamshireEnvironment and conservation
Income£200k2025-12-31
Spending£378ksame year
Spent / received92%5-year average
Size in its cause84th pctEnvironment and conservation
Registered1993Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway Association Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Buckinghamshire. It was registered in January 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02644128). It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway Association Limited reported income of £200k and spending of £378k, spending 189% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £212k to £200k (-5.4%), an average of -1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway Association Limited sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Llanelli and Mynydd Mawr Railway Company Limited (£200k), Chadacre Agricultural Trust (£202k) and 5th Exmouth Sea Scout Group (£200k).

Income and spending

£0£94k£189k£283k£378k2021 Income: £211,7052021 Spending: £140,43020212022 Income: £244,3912022 Spending: £182,26120222023 Income: £296,8752023 Spending: £231,53220232024 Income: £343,5902024 Spending: £262,15220242025 Income: £200,2052025 Spending: £377,5822025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

To collect, preserve, restore and operate as a permanent public exhibition and display for the advancement of technical, historical and general education and the demonstration of steam and other railway locomotives, rolling stock, equipment, machinery and relics of historical operations and general interest and educational value with particular reference to the former Great Western Railway.

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Llanelli and Mynydd Mawr Railway Company LimitedDyfed£200k
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5th Exmouth Sea Scout GroupDevon£200k
Gerald Arthur Rolph Foundation for Historic Preservation and EducationKnaresborough£203k