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Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd is a Registered Charity, Number 1092723, for the purpose of raising funds to support the SVRSevern Valley Railway. It is commonly referred to on the SVRSevern Valley Railway as "the Charitable Trust", and was originally called the SVRSevern Valley Railway Rolling Stock Trust. Its objectives are to help fund 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.

• It funds most of the costs of the SVRSevern Valley Railway’s Heritage Skills Training Academy and team of apprentices.
• Income from its endowment Future Fund will allow sustainable investment on the Railway in the years to come. Donations to the Future Fund are being matched, pound for pound, by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of up to £500,000 until June 2017.
• A rolling stock fundraising and restoration project for GWR Toad van 17410 is now underway, in collaboration with the LNER Carriage Group.
• In May 2016, the Trust secured a grant of £75,000 from the Department for Transport towards a project which will transform the Railway’s facilities for disabled visitors by adapting a carriage to wheelchair use to complete the SVRSevern Valley Railway’s fleet of accessible carriages, and rebuilding a second carriage to provide wheelchair-accessible dining facilities.
• The Charitable Trust is supporting the SVRSevern Valley Railway’s ambitious Bridgnorth Development Project.
• The Trust supports the diesel groups' appeal seeking to improve facilities at the Kidderminster Diesel Depot which opened in June 2016.^[1]
• It works with supporters to ensure their wishes are kept when they decide to leave a final legacy to the Railway in their Will.

Previous support includes:

• It secured an HLFHeritage Lottery Fund (National Lottery Heritage Fund from 2019) grant of £95,000 towards the restoration of 4930 Hagley Hall .
• The Trust has worked closely with volunteers from the LNER Carriage Group to raise funds for and in conjunction with Carriage & Wagon to complete the final restoration work on three GresleySir Nigel Gresley, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London & North Eastern Railway 1923-1941 teak carriages (7960, 24506 and 52255.) These were splendidly showcased when Flying Scotsman visited the SVRSevern Valley Railway in September 2016.
• It contributed to the annual track re-laying work that took place in 2016 between Eardington and Bridgnorth.

The Charitable Trust owns GWR 7819 Hinton Manor, together with a number of carriages and goods wagons:

• Some of these carriages were formerly owned by a separate body, the L.M.S & B.R.British Rail or British Railways Coach Fund. The Coach Fund donated them to the Charitable Trust in 2007, following which it became a department within the Charitable Trust. The department maintains a sales coach at Bridgnorth.
• Three carriages were also acquired from the LNER (SVR) Coach Fund in 2010, at which time the LNER Carriage Group similarly became a department within the Charitable Trust.
• In early 2016, the LNER (SVR) Coach Fund and the SVR Holdings Company transferred the ownership of their LNERLondon & North Eastern Railway carriages to the Charitable Trust, resulting in the Trust now owning all nine LNERLondon & North Eastern Railway carriages based on the SVRSevern Valley Railway.

A full list of all the rolling stock owned by the Trust can be found here.

See also

The SVR Organisation
List of rolling stock owned by The SVR Charitable Trust

References

1. ↑ Diesel Leaflet

Links

Charitable Trust website SVRLive page