Furness Railway Trust

Analysis

Furness Railway Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Grange-over-Sands. It was registered in August 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Furness Railway Trust reported income of £68k and spending of £56k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £42k to £68k (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Furness Railway Trust sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Pangolin Project CIO (£68k), The Friends of St Margaret's Church Hemingford Abbots (£68k) and Xcelerate (£68k).