Hello everyone. We hope that you are all keeping well and enjoying the sunshine.
Community Rail Week
With less than a week to go until Community Rail Week, we want to send best wishes to members and partners running the c.100 activities planned. Please make good use of the digital toolkit emailed to you last Friday, keep updating our comms team with your plans, and visit our map to see the spread of activities. Please shout about your activities on social media using #CommunityRailWeek, showing how your local activities are part of a wider movement, and share your photos and successes to help us understand the impact.
Influencing
With a number of new mayors elected in the local elections earlier this month, we will be reaching out to them all to introduce community rail and ensure we are best placed to offer insights as they get started in their new roles. We hope to plan a number of visits too over the coming months: we will update you in due course.
Upcoming online sessions
Members, don’t forget to book your place on our upcoming online sessions:
- Railway 200 (Thursday 16 May, 11am-12pm) – project manager Emma Robertson will share an update on the national campaign plans and answer questions. More here.
- Integrated sustainable travel showcase (Thursday 6 June, 12-1pm) – hear lessons and insights from Purbeck CRP, Friends of Brockenhurst Station and Severnside CRP about their projects to improve multi-modal connectivity. Book here.
- Design skills (Tuesday 11 June, 10am-12pm) – tips from TeamBA on how to improve your design skills and enhance your social media presence using Canva. Book here.
If you have any news stories, please email our communications team on news@communityrail.org.uk. See here for guidance on submitting stories.
Your next bulletin, a Community Rail Week special edition, is on 29 May. Keep up-to-date in between on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok.
Best wishes,
Jeremy and Jools
- Campaign calls for train ticket booking window to be extended for flight-free trips
- Have your say on how station accessibility in the North can be improved
- Northern doubles funding available for groups to help improve social mobility
- Funding available for community rail and station adoption projects on EMR network
- Apply now for Chiltern Railways community funding
- Sheringham Station signposting aims to boost accessible and sustainable tourism
- Rural stations lead recovery in rail travel on the Bentham Line
- Artist On My Street: CONNECTIONS exhibition launched at Coventry Station
- New River Line CRP teams up with social prescribing service to boost wellbeing
- 1930s-inspired artwork brightens up Bishopstone Station
- Discover South West Wales without a car thanks to sustainable tourism brochure (view the brochure here)
- Visitors can take an e-bike adventure from Buxton Station with ISTF-funded project
- Explore the Peak District even further by bus and rail this summer
