# GREAT WESTERN (SVR) ASSOCIATION

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1078718
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Other
- **Registered:** Dec. 22, 1999
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1078718


## Contact

- **Address:** 1 ACACIA DRIVE, MELBOURNE, DERBY
- **Postcode:** DE73 8LT
- **Phone:** 01332 864027
- **Email:** mick@hitrail.com
- **Website:** www.gw-svr-a.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY SOCIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY OF RAILWAYS IN GENERAL WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE FORMER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY (&quot;GWR&quot;) AND SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY (&quot;SVR&quot;) (TOGETHER THE RAILWAYS&quot;) BY ACQUIRING PRESERVING DISPLAYING AND MAKING USE OF HISTORIC ROLLING STOCK ARTIFACTS, RELICS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE RAILWAYS OR RAILWAYS GENERALLY:

**Activities:** Preservation and restoration of historic carriages and locomotives of the Great Wesrn Railway origin for operation and educational value based on the Severn Valley Line in Worcestershire.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Human Resources, Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE IN BEWDLEY, KIDDERMINSTER AND BRIDGNORTH
- Shropshire
- Worcestershire





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **MICHAEL HAYNES** | Chair |  |
| BRIAN ARTHUR LOWE |  | Oct. 17, 2021 |
| COLIN RICHARD JENKINS |  |  |
| COLUMB WILLIAM HOWELL |  |  |
| Christopher Haynes |  |  |
| DAVID ALFRED SMITH |  | Oct. 17, 2021 |
| DAVID WILLIAM MASSEY |  |  |
| GARETH PRICE |  | Oct. 15, 2012 |
| GRAHAM JOHN GARDENER |  |  |
| PAUL BENNETT |  |  |
| ROBERT MASSEY |  | Oct. 14, 2014 |




