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We're bringing heritage trains back to the Sharpness Branch - creating a tourist attraction and education attraction to show how this charming line served the community and took goods from dock to ...
Fundraising Lead
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Summary
Help us develop and implement our fundraising strategy for an exciting heritage and educational project.Detailed description
We are looking for someone who can develop our strategy for raising funds for our project to build a heritage restoration and educational facility at Oldminster Sidings, near Sharpness Docks and just off the A38.
Ideally you should have previous experience in fundraising for the heritage sector, but what we're looking for most is freesh, appealing and practical ideas. That means helping us develop and implement an action plan to raise funds and identifying potential sources of funding. They could be corporate sponsorship, grants from trusts or foundations as well as online-giving and community fund raising.
We are a friendly and enthusiastic 100% volunteer group, who would your skills to set us on the right (railway) track.
About Vale of Berkeley Railway Charitable Trust
Our aim is to reopen the Sharpness branch line, in Gloucestershire, to passengers as a heritage railway tourist attraction, rebuilding some of the key structures that once adorned this historic joint GWR & LMS Severn & Wye Railway. We have established an engineering facility based in the Old Engine House by the docks, to restore heritage locomotives, rolling stock and other items from a bygone era, and to serve as an initial base for the Vale of Berkeley Railway. Now we are working on developing the original Sharpness freight sidings site, as the next phase in our plans to establish a Heritage Railway operation towards Berkeley.