The ‘Rail Journey to Recovery’ is an innovative project between Community Rail Cumbria and Turning Point, a national charity…
The Rail Journey to Recovery
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
The ‘Rail Journey to Recovery’ is an innovative project between Community Rail Cumbria and Turning Point, a national charity…
Category: Sustainable travel
Overview The idea of the Carbon Reduction Challenge was to run a programme of school engagement devised by Devon and…
Category: Tourism
Overview Research carried out at a number of public engagement events showed that Lincolnshire was relatively unknown as a visitor…
Category: Arts and culture, Diversity and social inclusion
Overview Smethwick Rolfe Street is an inner-city station near Birmingham, opened in 1852, in one of the most diverse parts…
Category: Leisure and heritage, Marketing and communications
Overview This was an ambitious event involving 21 local community groups, during the World War One 100th anniversary remembrance period…
Category: Marketing and communications
Overview When a long-held aspiration is close to being achieved, it’s important to seal the deal, and that’s what happened…
Category: Arts and culture, Children and young people
Kilmarnock Connections is a permanent public artwork that aimed to revitalise Kilmarnock Station Underpass, officially opened on 7 December…
Category: Children and young people
Overview The objective was to create and produce a rail safety film where the message would be understood by children…
Category: Arts and culture
Overview The Mid Cheshire Line Community Rail Partnership working closely with the Friends of Littleborough Stations and Community Rail Lancashire…
Category: Children and young people
Overview Young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) often struggle to access public transport for a range of…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Women in Community Rail (WiCR) was established to help support colleagues in the community rail family work towards a more…
About Sheila Sheila Davidson has been involved with the Friends of Hindley Station from the beginning and has worked tirelessly…
Category: Volunteering
Neil Williams is described as a “truly outstanding” volunteer. He is the founder member of Friends of Glossop Station (FOGS)…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Overview The Strawberry Line Cafe Project Interest Company (CIC) was set up in 2008 to restore and run a community…
Category: Volunteering
Overview There is a well-established collective in the borough that Alexandra Palace station is in with the unusual name of…
Category: Community stations
Overview The main roof of Lowestoft Station was removed in 1992, leaving a concourse surrounded by derelict or unused buildings,…
Category: Children and young people
Concept and aims Confident and safe use of public transport is a right that must be available to all people…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims The film ‘Broken Lives Mended’ sets out to illustrate how involvement with rail has had a…
Category: Arts and culture
Concept and aims The Friends of Rose Hill Station, in Marple, recognised that their area had an ageing population, with…
Category: Arts and culture, Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims Dwell Time was developed as an arts project to raise awareness of mental wellbeing and to provide…
Category: Community stations, Gardens
Concept and aims The Poacher Line Community Rail Partnership had identified a neglected piece of land, including an old station…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims Research suggests there is a strong link between high poverty levels and low educational attainment. According to…
Category: Children and young people, Tourism
Concept and aims During the spring of 2019 a number of community engagement projects called ‘CreativiTea Trains’ took place…
Category: Marketing and communications
Concept and aims The Looe Valley Line in Cornwall has a fascinating history dating back more than 150 years. The…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims With more than 850,000 people in Britain living with dementia, including tens of thousands near the Bentham…
Category: Tourism
Concept and aims The Heart of Wales Line Development Company set out to create a long-distance walking trail linked to…
Category: Volunteering
About Julie’s Twitter handle, @ManyHatsJulie, says it all. She has been involved in campaigning for improvements in rail services for…
Category: Children and young people
Concept and aims Bolton Station Community Development Partnership (BSCDP) has been working with two Prince’s Trust teams over the last…
Category: Children and young people
Concept and aims North Staffordshire CRP wanted a fresh approach to their new line guide for 2019 – 20. When…
Category: Children and young people, Diversity and social inclusion
Seats to Sacks is an innovative project devised by Community Rail Lancashire, that aimed to reduce social isolation whilst turning…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims Community Rail Lancashire has been working with Arts2Heal, a small charity in Blackburn that was set up…
Category: Children and young people
Seats to Sacks is an innovative project from Community Rail Lancashire, striving to reduce social isolation whilst turning railway moquette…
Category: Marketing and communications
Heart of England CRP Heart of England Community Rail Partnership is a recently formed community rail partnership, covering stations between…
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