THE BEDFORD STEAM ENGINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Charity number: 291744
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RESPECT OF ALL TYPES OF STEAM ENGINES, INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES, TRACTORS, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2024
Total income: £77,889
Total expenditure: £5,250
People
7 Trustee(s)
360 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
- Bedford
- Central Bedfordshire
Governance
Registration history:
- 15 May 1985: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
No other names
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
7 Trustee(s)
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| JOHN SAUNDERS | Chair |
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| Angela Smith | Trustee | 23 March 2026 |
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| Dave Roberts | Trustee | 02 March 2020 |
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| Peter Wheeler | Trustee | 02 March 2020 |
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| Sarah Smith | Trustee | 01 March 2020 |
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| LINDSAY WORBEY | Trustee |
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| PAUL WORBEY | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | 31/12/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £2.78k | £3.06k | £1.97k | £4.99k | £77.89k | |
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Total expenditure | £2.97k | £4.29k | £3.97k | £3.36k | £5.25k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 December 2024 | 29 October 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2024 | 29 October 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 05 September 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 03 November 2023 | 3 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 10 October 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 19 July 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | Not required |