Get Involved

We offer many opportunities to volunteer:

• The opportunity for hands on experience of carriage restoration.
• Helping to run the shop and the Museum.
• Joining the Magazine Room team.
• Looking after our Museum visitors - a way to meet and talk to people.

No special expertise or experience is necessary, but if you have this so much the better. Please call in any day of the week. If you are not certain about what's happening when, you can always email admin@vintagecarriagestrust.org For those who can only give armchair support we value your interest expertise and your input through letters and emails.

In return for your membership subscription you will receive:

• An illustrated Newsletter every three or four months or so.
• Free admission to the Museum and to sites where our Collection may be visiting.
• Half price travel on Worth Valley Railway trains (except for 'Special Events').
• Occasional group social outings.
• The right to attend and to vote at the Trust's Annual Meeting, if a Member.
• The right to attend the Trust's Annual Meeting, if an Associate.

Membership rates are currently £12 annually, or £360 for Life Membership. If you pay UK Income Tax and are able to make a donation above your Membership fee, could you please also complete the Gift Aid form and send it to us - this will allow us to claim back the Income Tax you have already paid on your donation, so increasing the value of your donation by 25%, at no extra cost to you.

If you live outside the UK, please also add a contribution towards the higher postage costs for the three Newsletters you should receive each year.

Donations are always very welcome and will be used to help towards the work of the Trust.

Contact details, and a link to the Gift Aid form, are on the Membership Application Form (which doubles as a Donation Form).

Donations of books, magazines, railway hardware, or anything else associated with railways for us to sell in our two Shops are also always very welcome. Please ring before making a long journey, especially if you are bringing magazines.

Donation of items for display or for reference within our Museum are also much welcomed - but please contact us first, so that we can confirm with you that our formal Collecting Policy is complied with and that your gift won't result in unnecessary duplication.

...we don't like to say this: but... Have you made a Will?

All too often we hear of railway collections being lost because Executors just didn't appreciate the interest and the value of things they identified merely as "junk". If you haven't already done so, please consider making a Will and within it take the opportunity of specifying what you would like to happen to your own railway Collection. There is more information on the VCT Legacies leaflet.

Your support in this way towards the work of the Trust is much appreciated!