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[[File:SVR_Charitable_Trust_2022.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Charitable Trust's 10th anniversary logo]]The '''Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust''' is one of the three main organisations which make up the Severn Valley Railway. It is a Registered Charity which supports the SVR by raising funds to help restoration and maintenance projects, to help arrest the decline of heritage engineering skills and to safeguard the long-term future and operational capability of the Railway. 2022 marks the Charitable Trust's 10th anniversary.
The Charitable Trust is a membership body. Governance is through up to nine trustees, including ex officio the chairman (or their nominee) from each of the Railway's other main organisations, [[SVR(H)|Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC]] ("SVR(H)") which owns the infrastructure and operates the Railway, and [[Severn Valley Railway Company Limited]] ("the Guarantee Company") which is responsible for the membership and volunteers. The Charitable Trust's salaried executive director is Shelagh Paterson.
==Origins and Objects==
=== SVR Rolling Stock Trust: 2001 to 2012 ===
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| 2021 || style="text-align:right;" | £690,171 ||
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| 2022 || style="text-align:right;" | £1,224,345 || Includes £483k Roof and Crane appeal
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*[[Hinton Manor Fund]] (ownership of [[GWR 7819 Hinton Manor]])
*[[Kidderminster Shunter Fund]] (ownership of [[BR Class 11 12099]])
*[[L.M.S. & B.R. Coach Fund ]] transferred ownership of its carriages to the Charitable Trust in 2007, following which it became a department within the Trust. The department maintains a [[L.M.S. & B.R. Coach Department Sales Coach | sales coach]] at [[Bridgnorth]].
*Three carriages were also acquired from [[The LNER (SVR) Coach Fund | the LNER (SVR) Coach Fund]] in 2010, at which time [[The LNER Carriage Group | the LNER Carriage Group]] similarly became a department within the Charitable Trust. In early 2016, the [[The LNER (SVR) Coach Fund|LNER (SVR) Coach Fund]] and the [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC|SVR Holdings Company]] transferred the ownership of their LNER carriages to the Charitable Trust, resulting in the Trust now owning all nine LNER carriages based on the SVR.
*Les Johnson and John Hancock (ownership of [[BR 993898 'Shark' Ballast Plough Brake]])<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/bloct21 Branch Lines October 2021]</ref>
==See also==
*[[The Severn Valley Railway in preservation#Current Organisation | The SVR Organisation]]
*[[L.M.S. & B.R. Coach Department Sales CoachFund|L.M.S. & B.R. Coach Department]] - a department of the Trust
*[[The LNER Carriage Group]] - part of the Trust
*[[Friends of 4930 Hagley Hall]] - integrated into the trust to maximise income through Gift Aid
