Emergency Appeals during Lockdown

Second round culture recovery grants:

https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/publications/culture-recovery-fund-heritage-second-round-decisions

A quick squiz shows:

GCR - £515,700
Mid Hants - £496,200
South Devon Railway - £423,700
Mid Norfolk Railway - £401,800
KWVR - £346,600
Churnet Valley - £283,300
Bluebell Railway - £272,400
KESR - £250,700
RHDR - £210,400
Swanage - £189,200
Bure Valley - £188,000
Yorkshire Dales Railway - £169,400
East Somerset - £160,700
Bodmin And Wenford - £144,800
Hollycombe - £133,600
Forest of Dean - £115,800
Peak Rail - £114,000
East Lancashire Light Railway - £100,000
Avon Valley Railway - £97,400
GWSR - £71,800
Chinor and Princes Risborough - £71,800
Tanfield - £65,400
Mayflower Locomotive - £63,400
Epping Ongar - £61,900
Wensleydale - £45,000
Wyvern Rail - £42,300
Middleton Railway - £36,300
HRA - £34,900
Colne Valley - £34,000
South Tynedale - £33,100
Foxfield - £24,700
West Lancashire Light Railway - £18,900
Stainmore - £16,900
West Somerset (WSRHT) - £13,100
Dinmore Manor Locomotive - £12,800
Cambrian Heritage Railway - £12,000
A1 Steam locomotive - £11,100
Tanat Valley Light Railway - £6,000

(476 awards in total, worth about £44million on that list)

That's a quick scan, I might have missed some - I'm sure @D1039 will do his usual through job of cataloguing!

Tom

 

Oddly, Nene Valley Railway don't seem to be on the list, yet they reported this morning they'd received £479,765 from the fund.

 

Yes, and the NYMR are also reporting £587k - I'm wondering if there are different schemes as the one above only amounts to £44m and it seems that there is £300m in the latest round.

Tom

 

You've missed the North Norfolk too we've been awarded £397,500

 

That will be because those ones have been award by Arts Council England, not by Historic England and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

List of grants from ACE:
Beamish Museum £585,000
Bressingham Steam Museum £43,075
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust £384,144
Didcot Railway Centre £114,015
East Anglia Transport Museum £25,000
Kidderminster Railway Museum Trust Ltd £19,025
Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway Museum £37,832
London Museum of Water & Steam £68,947
London Transport Museum £875,000
Midland Railway Trust £38,548
Nene Valley Railway Limited £479,765
North York Moors Historical Railway Trust £578,000
Rocks by Rail - the Living Ironstone Museum £9,057
The National Tramway Museum £204,746

 

Lavender Line Ltd £7,900
Modern Electric Tramways Ltd (Seaton Tramway) £217,500
North Norfolk Railway plc £397,500
Northampton Steam Railway Ltd £17,600
Plym Valley Railway Company Ltd £13,900
Riley & Son (E) Ltd £281,900
Rushden Historical Transport Society £12,500
Threlkeld Quarry Museum Ltd £9,200
Vintage Trains Charitable Trust £97,400

 

Has anything been awarded to the Lynton and Barnstaple this time around?

 

Pleased to see that this round of grants has included some of the smaller lines in my neck of the woods - Avon Valley, Dean Forest & East Somerset. I don't think they got anything last year.

But still nothing for the Swindon & Cricklade?

 

So what would we expect these grants to be spent on, and perhaps more importantly not spent on?

Dave

 

If you can’t think of anything to spend grant monies on you’re not heritage railway management material.

 

I see there's a third round of Culture Recovery fund. "Almost £220 million will be available for both new organisations who are at imminent risk of failure and existing recipients of CRF grants. Funding will be available to boost those who have received support already"

Apparently it covers those that got phase I and/or phase II

Patrick

 

Round three funding from Arts Council England https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/publication/culture-recovery-fund-data

• East Anglia Transport Museum £25,000
• London Museum of Water & Steam £58,845
• London Transport Museum £450,000
• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums £87,280

 

Ravenglass & Eskdale got £451,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund allocation. It's the only railway or related organisation to get a CRF grant from the HLF allocation. Info from https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/abo...inuity-support-and-emergency-resource-support

Further announcements will be made in the coming months.

 

Latest Round 3 CRF grants from Historic England and the Heritage Lottery Fund https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/christmas-funding-boost/

Churnet Valley Railway (1992) PLC £99,600
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway Public Limited Company £641,800
Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) Plc. £1,012,900
Stainmore Railway Company Limited £16,000
WyvernRail plc £81,900

 

(Moving this from the SVR thread):

I wonder how many applied for that round, especially amongst railways that had been successful in the previous round? I had a feeling (am open to correction) that restrictions were quite strict in terms of the threat the organisation saw itself under, and also success in previous rounds.

The current round of applications (open now) has as a stipulation

"Cultural organisations that are properly constituted with a governing document and are able to demonstrate, via cashflow forecast, they are at risk of ceasing to trade viably within 12 weeks of the point of application. "
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So for this latest round, it is quite a big call to apply given what it says about your financial viability.

Tom

 

Not a railway but perhaps of interest, the Great Dorset Steam Fair has received £156,000.