Our Friends
Dapol, one of the UK's leading and most innivative British owned and based Model Railway Manufacturers Dapol are producing a 28xx range and including within that range an exclusive model of 2874. For each 2874 sold they will make a generous donation to The 2874 Tust An amazingly generous gesture, for which we are deeply endebted.
Please support Dapol and The 2874 Trust by Pre ordering your 2874 model now & see their complete range of Dapol 7mm, 4mm and 2mm models.
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded us a grant of £57,400 to run a series of training projects - these range from the very basic preserving rusted components to complex machining tasks and involve both structured training workshops for the less skilled and self-development for the more advanced volunteer.
Dinmore Manor Locomotive Ltd has supported the creation of the 2874 Trust from the outset and arranged the purchase of our locomotive - they continue to provide expertise & the use of their tools and equipment, in addition to using their buying power as an established locomotive restorer and operator. We anticipate an ongoing relationship right through the restoration and we will continue to use their operational experience when we come to run a completed loco on Heritage Lines.
Included in our first National Heritage Lottery Fund work was a sub-project to create a new website - this has served us very well for seven years but is now due for a "refresh". We would like to record our thanks to the staff and students of SGS Berkeley Green UTC for their work.
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway have provided a restoration base for our work and access to their established volunteer workforce. In addition, we are able to publicise our project at events on the Railway and through their magazine. In due course, we hope to operate the restored loco on this line.
GB Railfreight, one of our first sponsors, who kindly sponsored the production of publicity materials for our Heritage Skills Day much of the material is still in use at our various events.
Chris Vine, the author of the excellent Peter's Railway books provided the artwork. The publicity material will continue to be used at a number of events.' Chris has now kindly agreed to becom a Patron . We anticipate working with Chris on a number of projects.
Ecclesiastical Insurance have made two grants of £1000 to assist with our project - they are an insurance company that donates all their profits to charitable bodies. Awards are made based on public nominations, so we must thank all of those members a& friends who went on-line on each occasion to lend us their support. There are likely to be future opportunities to help as Ecclesiastical opens up more funding ventures - we will take part!