OSCR Scottish charity profile

Railway Benevolent Institution

Known as RBF

ActiveCharity number SC039550
Registered7 May 2008
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formStatutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC039550
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
9
Postcode
CW2 6AD

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Institution is hereby constituted are to relieve aged or disabled or necessitous Railwaymen, their Spouses or Children, or other relatives or persons who were immediately and wholly or partly dependent upon them.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£580,204£668,514924 June 2026
31 December 2024£555,520£810,715925 July 2025
31 December 2023£415,501£839,66999 September 2024
31 December 2022£583,208£826,452918 July 2023
31 December 2021£404,636£633,460916 August 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Millenium House , 40 Nantwich , Crewe, Cheshire
Website supplied to OSCR
www.railwaybenefitfund.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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