Volunteering

There are a number of ways to support our project in addition to membership or sharesholding if you are able to spare some of your time to assist us either at our working weekends or be part of our engineering team, see below, or you might wish to assist us with our sales and publicity stand at various railway galas and events to raise awareness of our project, raise funds through sales of our merchandise and recruitment of new members / contributors to the project. If you are interested please contact our chairman / volunteer liaison officer Andrew Collett here  

Working Weekends & Sales Stands

We aim to hold at least one working party weekend a month in co-operation with our friends at  the Swindon & Cricklade Railway.  We also have our sales stand present at a numbr of events throughout the year.

As always with our working weekends, no experience is necessary just enthusiasm and a willingness to get involved. If you are interested please contact our contact our chairman / volunteer liaison officer Andrew Collett here  for a volunteer form to fill out.

Please note: as well as being a member of the General Steam Navigation Locomotive Restoration Society, see joining details here, you will also need to be a Member of the Swindon & Cricklade Railway this ensures that all our working weekend activities are fully covered by insurance.

Note: due to Covid-19 secure working practices we have to limit working party numbers and therefore attendance of the following working weekends is strictly by prior agereement with our our chairman / volunteer liaison officer Andrew Collett only.

Our current planned dates for our working weekends, or sales stand, are as follows:

15^th  May - Annual General Meetings

28^th / 29^th May - Working weekend

3^rd to 5^th June - Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway - Cotswold Festival of Steam Gala - Sales Stand 

25^th / 26^th June - Working weekend

2^nd / 3^rd July – Swindon & Cricklade Railway – Diesel Gala – Sales Stand

23^rd /24^th July - Working weekend

13^th / 14^th August – Swindon & Cricklade Railway – Past and Present Family Festival – Sales Stand

20^th / 21^st August - Working weekend

27^th / 29^th August – Swindon & Cricklade Railway – Day out with Thomas – Sales Stand

17^th / 18^th September - Working weekend

24^th / 25^th September – Swindon & Cricklade Railway – Military Weekend  – Sales Stand

15^th /16^th October - Working weekend

12^th /13^th November - Working weekend

10^th /11^th December - Working weekend

14^th /15^th January 2023 - Working weekend 

11^th /12^th February 2023  - Working weekend

11^th /12^th March 2023 - Working weekend

These dates are subject to confirmation please check prior to attending with our contact our chairman / volunteer liaison officer Andrew Collett here