National Lottery Heritage Fund

We have been fortunate in securing two grants from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The first came in 2018 - the focus of the grant was to help preserve and develop heritage engineering skills in the voluntary sector using our restoration project as the primary training platform.  The second grant in 2024 was to continue the work on skills with the primary focus on the skills required to work on locomotive boilers.  Thanks to UK lottery players we will help ensure the vital skills needed to keep our industrial heritage alive can be preserved for future generations.

The photo gallery in the restoration story shows some of the tasks undertaken by our volunteers